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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13731, 20 March 1915, Page 5

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THE WESTERN THEATRE.

PROGRESS OF TEE BELG.ANS

BRITISH CASUALTIES AT NEUVE

CHAPELLE

FRENCH ADVANCE AT MESNIL

DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING

Paris, Macch 18

A commnnique states that the Belgians are making progress. They bombarded a convoy near Dixmude.

A French aviator bombarded Conflang railway station in Lorraine.

A further list shows 119 officers' casualties at Neuve Chapelle, including 64 dead.

Details of the fighting at le Mesnil les Hurlus, received from Cernay, state that a mine exploded a partly-filled-up French trench. The Germans occupied it, but were subsequently driven out, and established themselves in a cavity caused by the explosion, and bombarding with trench mortors and hand grenades succeeded in re-occupy-ing the trench.

French artillery during the.night expelled the enemy with hea.vy loss.

The French occupied the cavity, and connected it with the trench by a tunnel. They defeated a German counterattack, killing a hundred.