FRENCH CAPTURE AT HEBUTERNE

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13792, 12 June 1915, Page 5

FRENCH CAPTURE AT HEBUTERNE

GERMANS ISOLATED AND

DEMORALISED

A LESSON IN HUMANECY,

(Received June 11, 11.45- p.«a.)

Paris, Juoe 11

Details of the French attack at Hebuterne show that when it; was apparent that the Germans stationed at a farm in the vicinity had been partially isolated, a heavy artillery fire was opened, rendering it impossible for the "Germans to re-provision, and the -defenders were soon demoralised, fry hunger and thirst.

The French infantry immediately advanced with formidable impetuosity, ■and captured three lines of tceaclies in seventeen minutes. The enemy scarcely resisted the ensuing bayone-fc charge, but threw up their hands, siioating, "Wator; water."

The French rapidly organised and captured the position. They found a number of machine guns. The prisoners were a spectacle of abso!«te discouragement and fatiguo.

The authorities, following General Joffro'is order to give tho Q-ei'aians a terrible lesson in humanity, sent the best ambulances to pick up tho wounded.