CLEVER COUP BY THE FRENCH

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 2 March 1915, Page 5

CLEVER COUP BY THE FRENCH

A THREE DAYS' BATTLE IN FLANDERS < ' GERMANS OUT-MANOEUVRED AND OUT-FOUGHT ' _ Paris, February 28. A defeat of the Uermans at Chateau Heerentage, on the road from Ypres to Memn, was due to the cleverness of the French. The fight began on February 9, and lasted three days. The Germans attacked and found themselves exposed, to an intense artillery, fire on the flank. The Germans, with their guns at longer range, tried to hinder the French reserves. • The struggle centred round the chateau, and there was a. great fight to take the last trench. The French dug a cross-trench and quietly moved their machine-guns and a mortar and enfiladed, the enemy. An advance followed The French, using hand-grenades, dashed to the trench and killed the defenders to a man. " , The Germans lost four hundred killed and six hundred wounded, the French fifty killed and eighty wounded. ■ The High Commissioner reports:— ' ' "Paris reports that at Dixmude, in Belgium, tie artillery demolished two earthworks. Our infantry is occupying a farm on the right bank of "An aviator threw bomb on a maritime railway station at ostead." REIMS CATHEDRAL AGAIN BOMBARDED. 1., , , _ Parts, February 28. A wmmimique states The Germans bombarded Reims, thirty shells' district" ma^e n P or * progress in the Champagne German prisoners taken in recent fighting report that their 92nd Regiment was entirely annihilated. OPERATIONS IN NORTH FRANCE. The High Commissioner repofls:— ' 7 Paris reports that the enemy bombarded Soissons with two hundred small »i u. district the Allies hare made a marked advanoo along the whole fighting front. ■ " "North of Perthes we repelled a counter-attack, and retained the works takeii^ tho previous day, while we" extended ~our positions, occupying* 1 " new "The Allies Lave gained ground in all the woods between Perthes and iJoausejour. The gains north and north-west of Beausejour, representing two thousand metres (over iOM yards) of trenches yesterday, wer<s considerably enlargod. to-day, lu. a single trench the enemv left over two hundred dead In the Argonne the Allies have taken three hundred metres (about 380 yards) of trenches by a brilliant infantry attack "In the Vosges, north of Chapelotte, a lively German attack was repulsed* War Office casualties to-day are: Officers: killed 10, wounded 3 ; men: killed. 365, wounded 560, missing 60, prisoners 6; rejoined our ranks, 3 "The total of the enemy's surrenders during the. "last ten days is over one thousand." . A Press Association message from Paris (received at 9.15 p.m.) covers the same ground as the High Commissioners message, and adds:—"We captured three hundred metres of. trenches west of Boureuilles, (in the Argonne forest), and by a brilliant infantry attack reached the edge of the plateau at' Vauquois (south-east of Varennes). < 7 .