BRITISH FIERCELY ASSAILED AT HILL 60.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15914, 11 May 1915, Page 7

BRITISH FIERCELY ASSAILED AT HILL 60.

STORY OF LAST WEEK'S OPERATIONS.

GERMANS STORM HILL UNDER COVER OF GAS.

London, May ;'<

" Eypwituets" with the British headquarter?, describing the operations of the week, says:-" After severe fighting on the afternoon of the 2nd instant, our line north of Ypres was re-established in the even ing " There were indications on Monday morning of a renewal of the attack. Our guns fired into considerable bodies of the enemy, inflicting heavy losses. '• Fighting was renewed on Wednesday at several points round the Ypres salient. Clouds of gas forced us to evacuate -trenches at Hill 60, whereupon the Germans rushed the hill. Though' temporarily Checked by our artillery, the Germans, taking advantage'of the confused fighting, followed up their success, and forced their way to our supporting line in the direction of gillebeto, and took trenches north of the hill. A British counterattack drove them off, and all the trenches except on the crest and the north-east of the hill were reThe British made another counter-attack at midnight, and regained the whole position, but W« B^f At the same time two British count fa [ , .Ah-east of 'the Hill 60 failed." J g JWWftV, A - "Eve-witness" adds:— "The siglr M r p ..■. " :,.".' V-stog fije ' . . , atil full retributioaw cxacte^t?'/ about in- agony moaning for water,, • • ?f^ poisoned vermin, has ajqused .in tltf v > hope the British Empire will not rest}