POISON BELT ON ILL 60

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2455, 7 May 1915, Page 6

POISON BELT ON ILL 60

ENEMY GAINS A FOOTING GRIM STRUGGLE FOR THE CALAIS ROAD FIERCE BATTLES IN THE CARPATHIANS POSITIONS TAKEN AND RETAKEN WILL ITALY FIGHT 7 sLpart from the .intense local interest which is daily centred upon the fighting in the Gallipoli Peninsula, the main feature of the war lien's to-day is the grim struggle between the Germans and the Allies for the control of the Calais Boad. There has been another attack on the famous Hill 60, where the Germans, behind the screen of their ■ poison belt, managed to gain a footing. Eye-witness's story of the rejpulso of a Gorman attack behind the poison fumes makes thrilling reading. In the Eastern theatro battle after battle has been fought on the Carpathian, front, where the Austro-Gcrman armies are offering e, .desperate resistance. He Germans persist in their claim to an important victory in Western Galicia, their estimate of captures now totalling over 30,000. On the other hand, the Russians have been taking large numbers of prisoners here and there along their fighting front. Expert opinion attributes the German assertions of a victory with enormous captures to a move-to influence, if possible,. Italy's war pol- ■ icy, which, by the way, is now wrapped in mystery. The enemy in (German South-West Africa has poisoned the wells along the railway line. Mr. Lloyd George's Budget proposals are further amplified in today's new 6. The French wine-growers are alarmed at the taxation of the liquor proposals.