THE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS
VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS, (Rec. April 26, 0.10 a.m.)
London, April 24. ■Correspondents agree that , the prosent fighting in Flanders has become the biggest m which the British Army has been engaged. It is calculated Germany rushed up reinforcements equal to an army corps to Hill 60.
The British massed a large force of artillery behind the position, their latest surprise being a formidable array of machine-suns. The German losses were appalling. The area west of Bruges and the Courtrai Road is full of German troop trains, which are still arriving from Eastern Belgium. Other troops marched through Aix la Chapelle westerly continuously during the last three days. Other reports state that a hundred thousand Germans were concentrated between Antwerp and Ghent during the last few days.
Hill 60 is a little over a hundred yards long, offering a perfect target for artillery, hence the great part of the British losses.
Some German trenches are still virtually on the hill twenty yards from ours. Thus the front trencheß are free from shell-fire.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2445, 26 April 1915, Page 5
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175THE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2445, 26 April 1915, Page 5
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