BOMBARDMENT OF THE BRITISH.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

BOMBARDMENT OF THE BRITISH.

EXTRAORDINARY LAVJSHNESS . OF-GERMAN SHELL-FIRE.

London, June 8

1 A correspondent in the north of France states that the Germans for days have been bombarding the British lines with an inexhaustible shell supply, which they are expending -with extraordinary lavishness. Twenty thousand shfilk have fallen at Yprcs in four days, and there is 'a! similar prodigality of shelling of the Franco-Belgians southward and 'northward of Dixmude, on >h6.Yscr Canal, and the Artois plaints.' A correspondent on the Swiss frontier, learns that twenty thousand German; naval troops at Brussels, bringing heavy guns, dismounted from the battle j

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fleet, accounts for the increase of large calibre guns, which were recently active at many points, notably in Alsace. Refugees declare that Italian labour is used for extensive mining in the Alsatian towns, in • expectation of a French advance compelling a German evacuation. "The Times," in a leader, says: "The terrible lists of our losses for a week— * 900 officers and 20,000 men—should awaken the most sluggish to the need for fresh efforts. These losses were not suffered in a great, action appreciably hastening the termination of the war, but-were- ordinary wastages. As the war is now prosecuted, it must continue to bo prosecuted until our supplies of high explosives and the (supplies with which wo provide the Allies have been increased, allowing them to adopt other" operations."