THE WESTERN THEATRE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 5

THE WESTERN THEATRE.

BELGIAN PROGRESS ON THE

YSER.

BRITISH VIOLENTLY ATTACKED

ST. ELOI

NEUVE-CHAPELLE SITUATION UN-

CHANGED.

Paris, March 15

A communique states that the Belgians continue to make progress at the bend of the Yser, and alao south of Dixmude. The enemy violently attacked and slightly pushed back the British at St. < Ek>i. The British counter-attacked and regained part of the lost ground. The fighting continues. The situation in the Neuve-Chapelle region is unchanged. We repulsed a violent attempt to retake trenches between Foure de Paris and the Bois de Bolante. Two hundred Germans, in the midst of .an engagement at Hazebrouck, offered to surender, but German machine guas behind shot them all down.