COMPARATIVELY CALM IN BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 5

COMPARATIVELY CALM IN BELGIUM

ARULLERi' DHLS ONLY . . • FRENCH TROOPS CAPTURE SEVERAL TRENCHES ' Higk Ci'Afiiisßidner's report: l — London, May 2, 0.50 a.m. " Paris.—the da? his been comparatively calm in Belgium, and there is nothing Se* to retort. 1 ° lit the Boiß fe Pfetfe the French captured several trenches, a mitrailleuse, afid i3O prisoners. ; (Rec. May 2, 3i50 p.rri.) Londohj MaJ 1. Field' Marshal Sir John French reports that the British situation is un&ing6di' Activity is confined to tbe artillery. VALENCIENNES RAILWAY BOMBARDED. (Reß. May 2i 3.50 p.m.) P&rl», May 1. Official. —We progressed ildrth of Yptes from fire hundred metres to a kiku ,Bistre, capturing two; lines of trenches and taking many prisoner?. Our dirigible bombarded thS railway at Valenciennes. GERMANS-HASTILY FORMING NEW BRIGADES.: (Reo. May 2, 8.45 ji.m.) . Paris, May l. The Germans are hastily forming new infantry and artilleiy brigades 4t Biiiges for thfe Ysit, which will make 120,000 men south of MeCfipelle., GERMANS MOWED DOWN BY GERMANS. Paris, April 30. . Newspaper report* state that during the recent fight four thousand Germans crossed the Yser near Steenstraate. Belgian artillery destroyed fclid bridge, cutting off their retreat, end attaoked theto with field guns atid shrapnel. 1 ' The Gerinlns hoisted handkerchiefs on their rifles and surrendered, whete; upon the German machine-guns on the'opposite bank of the Ysei hiowed down those who surrendered. i ' ' The Belgians tnade prisoners of the-survivors. FIVII HUNDRED SHELLS FALL IN REIMS. , Paris,' April 3d. 'A ceaimtniqiie states: "We made progress in the neighbourhood if Ste4n« gtfaSte. - . "Five hundred shells, many incendiary, have fallen 6n Reims, but the nrts. Wire quifikly ertin^uished." DAILY LIST OF ARMY CASUALTIES. High CotomisEioiief'a rfepOrt Lontfoh, May I, 5.20 p.m. Killed. Wmrtded. Prisoners. OfficferS .......ii 18 35 — Men 117 356 118