THE NEUVE CHAPELLE BATTLE.

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

THE NEUVE CHAPELLE BATTLE.

"EYE-WITNESS" ACCOUNTS

GERMAN EFFORTS TO REGAIN

LOST GROUND

MORE THAN 2500 DEAD

London, March 18

"Eye-Witness" says that on the 11th inst. round Neuve-Chapelfe the enemy made incessant efforts to regain what had been lost.

The Germans on the 12th began to show signs of great exhaustion, and the attackers frequently held up their hands when we fired. Our infantry did not give them a moment's rest and whole companies surrendered.

The dead lay thick along the whole front, and 2000 dead were found south of a village, and another 500 lay stretched in front of ono of our battalions east of the village.

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These do not include large numbers killed in Neuve-Chapelle itself.

A patrol found a dummy figure in front of a German trench which exploded when removed, injuring the man.

A German officer, who was taken prisoner, stated that three Princes, including Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, were serving at Neuve-Chapelle, and he believed all were killed.