GALLANT EXPLOIT IN "NO MAN'S LAND."

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2760, 2 May 1916, Page 5

GALLANT EXPLOIT IN "NO MAN'S LAND."

• SURPRISE ATTACK ON THE GERMANS. Bv Telegreoli—Press Association—CoDyTieht ™ , ~ *<, „, Paris ' April 30. . -lhe feat of the Shrops'hires on tho night of April 21 was carried out with great gallantry and endurance, in tor-! rents of rain. "No man's land" was! Jioneycojnbtid with mine craters and' shell holes, and the entire churned-up area was a morass," in which. tlic men occasionally floundered up to their armpits in the liquid mud. They woro somo hours crossing two hundred yards of hog land, mostly progressing on allfours, each man throwing his'rifle in advance and crawling up to it, then repeating the process. The enemy was taken hy surprise. His ltain trench was almost deserted owing to tho floods. A Bharp hand-to-hand, light in one or two of the traverses enabled the Shropshires to sesuro and consolidate tho position. Two counter-attacks weie easily, repulsed. [It was previously reported by Sir Douglas Haig that, the King's Shropeliire Light Infantry had recaptured the trench-which, had,been lost on the night of April 19 on ihe Ypres-Langemarck road, on the Ysor line. Tho lino was completely re-established.]