READY TO MAKE DASH ON CALAIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13721, 26 June 1915, Page 8

READY TO MAKE DASH ON CALAIS.

GERMANS HAD 100,000 CAVALRY MASSED BEHIND LINES. LONDON, May 20. A despatch to the Morning P.ost from the north of France says : — "So confident were the Germans of breaking through at Ypres tliat they had massed a hundred thousand cavalry between Poelcapefle and Routers with which they hoped to dash through Steenstraate by the main road and so on to Dunkirk and. possibly Calais. This force was fully equipped' with quantities of machine-guns and heavily teamed, galloping batteries. The projected dasli explains the extraordinary effort that ■was made to consolidate the bridge held at Steenstraate. All this plan has now been changed by the Allies' successes, and large detachments of dismounted troopers have been brought into the filing line. "There was terrific fighting, it is said, around the railway triangle east of Quinchy. Here, too, the Germans have been using every species of foul device. There is reason to believe that the water in this district has been poisoned— our doctors suspect with arsenic— and careful analysis is now being made to establish the point. "As an illustration of the German methods, one may mention the case of a young subaliejfu, newly out, who, at the risk of his life, went to give ;i drink to a wounded German officer who wfas calling pfteously for water. As ho bent over ihim wrth his flask, the German, seized a bayonet thai Syas lying by his si^e and' stabbed his benefactor through the heart. The gallant youngsie£V's{hi' already been wounded in two places. "The h "wounded scoundrel endeavored 7to V escape, but was promptly, riddled, yfifti: gullets by the outraged regiment that h^d witnessed the whole affair."