BRAVE CHASSEURS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 July 1915, Page 2

BRAVE CHASSEURS

, HOW THE* LINE WAS HELD. (Rec. uly 12, 3 p.m.) , PARIS, July 11. vSoldierSj short of food, sent a,small patrol out at night, and these raided the German lines and .brought in a quantitv of tinned mea£. Early on the fourth da> the Germans renewed the attack. .:nd when ,the Chasseurs' ammunition was exhausted" they rolled huge rocks crushing many of the enemy, and checked the offensive. French artillery got within range and terrifically .bombarded the German line and enab'led the battalion to rescue the LOmpanv, who had two killedi and three wounded. They -captured ten-men with a mactime gun and 4000 cartridges.

GERMAN ARMY* SURGEONS. fßec. Jul\'-12, 2.55 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 11. Seven hundred and eighty-three Ger T man army surgeons have been, lost during the war; 228 'have been Jdlled-. and 354 wounded, the rest have been taken nriscmers ov. are missing. SUNKEN SUBMARINE FOUND.. ' {Rec. Julv 12, 2.55 p.m.) . " ROME, Jtily 11. Dur'ng operations for the recovery of the.. Medusa, divers discovered another submarine, evidently an Austrian, nearby. __ ' ' HOW GERMAN OPERATIONS FAILED. (Rec. July 12, 2.55 p.m.) PRETORIA, July 11. -General Botha reports that a mine detachment is* i<wnoving mines laid to impede General Botha's advance- An elaborate system wasjaid across defiles at'-Elefantenberg, but the'field antelliRence force rendered them harmless. "They captured five Germans waiting to explode, them, when the massed Union troops were about to cross.