GERMAN ARTILLERY EXPOSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15899, 23 April 1915, Page 7

GERMAN ARTILLERY EXPOSED.

UNWAVERING BRITISH TENACITY TURKS DISORGANISED. ROUT IN MESOPOTAMIA. To-day's cablegrams describe in detail the importance of the capture of Hill 60, east of Ypres. It formed a screen for Zandpoudre, the highest hill in the district, three miles eastward, on which the German artillery is posted, and which is the key to the German position in Flanders. This hill is now deprived of its main protection, exposing the German artillery. The Germans fought stubbornly to retain Hill 60, but had to give way before the irresistible dash of the British. On the following day they made a determined effort to recover the position, but the British held it with unwavering tenacity, and the Germans finally retired with heavy loss. Violent counter* attacks are still being made against the hill. It is estimated that the Germans have lost between 3000 and 4000 men at this point since Saturday. The allies have made a further advance in the Woevre region, capturing another trench at Flirey, east of St. Mihiel. The headquarters of the German general commanding in this region were bombed by French airmen. The Turks who were defeated at Shaiba, in the Busra region of the Persian Gulf, arc in disorganised retreat by road and river. Their losses in the recent action are estimated at 2500. It is officially reported that there is now no enemy within 50 miles of Busra. ' The Austrians are making a strenuous effort to retake the Polen height, south>west of Wyszkow, in the Carpathians, which the Russians have occupied. So far their attacks have been costly failures. German aeroplanes dropped 100 bombs on Biclostock, a railway junction and fortified town 100 miles north-east of Warsaw. A message from the High Commissioner states that the men who were drowned from the transport Manitou in the £gean Sea were members of the Royal Field Artillery.