NEUVE CHAPELLE

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 5

NEUVE CHAPELLE

BRITISH REGIMENTS' DASH

GERMANS CAUGHT IN A TRAP.

(Received April 7, 0.15 a.m.)

London, April 6

A combatant at Neuve Chapelle relates that the final success was largely due to the Lincolnshire and Berkshire Regiments' dash in the primary assault. The hand grenades thrown into the enemy's trenches caused many to surrender. The Germans were caught in a trap, and the Lincolnshires drove them across a strip of water five feet deep stretching along the front. The Lincolnshires lost seven officers, including. Colonel Macandrew, killed, and 298 men killed and wounded.