SUCCESSFUL ATTACK BY BRITISH AIRMEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL ATTACK BY BRITISH AIRMEN

SUBMARINE WORKS SHELLED DASH FROM DUNKIRK TO ANTWERP The High Commissioner reports:— , , . , , „ London, March 24, 5.45 p.m. Ihe Admiralty announces that wing-Commander Longmore reports that a. successful air-attack was conducted this morning by five machines belonging to tha Dunkirk squadron on German submarines at present being constructed at Hoboken, Antwerp. '■"■Two pilots had to return owing fco thick weather, but Squadron-Com-mander Ivor T. Courtney and Flight-Lieutenant H. Rosber reached their objective. Planing down to 1000 ft., they dropped four bombs each on the submarines. "It is believed that considerable damage was done both to the works and to two submarines. The works were observed to be on fire. Five submarines were observed on the slip. "Flight-Lieutenant; B. Crossley-Meats was obliged by engine trouble to descend in Holland. Owing to a mist the pilots experienced considerable difficulty m finding their way. They were subjected to heavy gun ire whilst delivering their attack. [The Press Association message gives a oondensed version of the raid.] OPERATIONS ON THE WESTERN BATTLE-FRONT ENEMY'S TRENCHES CAPTURED IN ALSACE. The High Commissioner reports;— , London, March 24, 5.45 p.m. Pans reports that the Belgian Army has progressed on the right bank of the Yser. ' At Hartmannswielerkopf (in Alsace) a second line of trenches was captured, and three French companies established near the summit. Prisoners, including several officers, wore taken. ' ' London, March 25, 1.20 a.m. Paris reports: North of Arras two German attacks at Notre Dame de Loretto were completely defeated. In the Champagne district an attack on a small fort at Beausejour was also chocked. "THE DAY OP REVENGE WILL COME." Amsterdam, March 24. After the battle of Neuve Chapelle Prince Rupert of Bavaria (the German commander) issued an army order insisting on the necessity of fortifying against further British attacks. The order concludes: "The day of revenge will come." HOW THE GERMAN PLANS WERE DISLOCATED DEFEAT AT YPRES A DECISIVE FACTOR. London, March 24. The fourth instalment of the French official review of the war insists on tho decisive character of the defeat of the German plans at Ypres. It waß necessary for French troops to continually reinforce the British in order to save Ypres. When Gheluvelt, Zanvoorde, Messines, and Wytschaete were lost, the Allies crowded three hundred guns a few kilometres from the Germans, who suffered terrible losses, losing at Ypres alone in three weeks over 150,000 meai. Over 40,000 German corpses were found on the field. The Allies achieved their main object, the enemy being only able to send four and a half army corps to the Eastern front out of fifty-two. Germany, the review alleges, has reached her maximum power, exhausted tho resources of her officers, and her offensive has been broken. The Allies possess considerable power of reinforcing their armies, and can break the German defensive by patient, indefatigablo preparation.