FRENCH BOOTY AT NEUVILLE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13793, 14 June 1915, Page 5

FRENCH BOOTY AT NEUVILLE.

PROGRESS AT HEBUTERNE

ENEMY'S LINE PIERCED

COUNTER-ATTACK REPULSED

(Received June 13, 2.10 p.m.)

Paris, June 12

Official.—The booty found among the Neuville St Vaast debris included three 77-mil!imetro guns, three trench mortars, and fifteen machine guns. Thero wore also buried or damaged, thousands of grenades, 800,000 cartridges, a thousaud rifles, incendiary implements and j shell:;, an enormous quantity of engineering tools, Loses of explosives, equip-, ment, and provisions. j Wo took an additional 130 prisoners in the Hebuterne district. -We counted hundreds of corpses, and the ambulances collected numerous German wounded. We captured three more machine guns. We pierced the German lines over two kilometres in length by one in depth. A' strong German counterattack was completely repulsed. Our trenches in the Guenncs'tierea' district, eastward of Tracy lo Mont, are strongly established in immediate contact with the enemy. The Government has made a commit-! tee of the Academy of Science an essen- ■ tial part of the groat military machine, j Two points are being discussed, name-! 3y, the possibility of a cloud of asphyxiating gases counteracting the enemy's gas, instead of the use of respirators; and some substitute for high explosive shel!.s in- the destruction of barbed wire entanglements.