In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 33, 10 February 1915, Page 5

In the West.

CAPTURE OF THE GREAT DUNE.

ALGERIAN’S SUCCESSFUL RUSE.

United Press Association

(Received 8.55 a.m.) Paris, February 9

After the Frenchmen’s fruitless efforts to capture the strongly held Great Dune, twenty-four Algerians concealed behind the bellies of their horses appeared in the German trenches at nightfall. When the Germans were about to capture them, the horses, in response to a sharp cry, galloped back to the French lines, whereupon, twenty-four grey forms rose from fcho ground and threw themselves upon the trenches. The Germans’ second line wavered, but did not fire, fearing they would hit their own men. Reinforcements arriving, the French captured the Great Dune with slight losses. i ENEMY LOSE 200 AT LA BOISELLE Paris, February 9. Official: The enemy exploded mines outside our positions at La Boiselle, and sent two and a half companies to assault the position. They were repulsed, leaving two hundred dead. COMMISSION’S REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, February 9. The Belgian Commission’s further report is packed with instances of the barbarous German device of compelling women to shield soldiers, imprisonment of hostages, wholesale murder of civilians, and the sack of burning houses.