In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 5

In the West

KILLED TO A MAN.

GERMANS BADLY BEATEN BY

THE FRENCH.

United Press Association. Paris, February 28. The defeat of the Germans at Chateau Heereutage ou the road from Ypres to Alenin was , due to the cleverness of the French. The light began on the 19th and lasted thiee days. The Germans attacked, but found themselves exposed to an intense artillery fire on their flank. Germans with guns at a longer range tried to hinder the French reserves. The struggle centred round the Chateau, and there was a great fight to take the last trench.

r [’he French dug cross-trenches and quietly moved machine-guns and mortar, and enfiladed the enemy. An advance followed, and the French, using hand grenades, dashed at the trench and killed the defenders to a man. The Germans lost 400 killed and wounded; the French had fifty killed and eighty wounded.

92nd REGIMENT ANNIHILATED IN RECENT FIGHTING.

(Received 8.25 a.m.) Paris, February 28

Prisoners who were in the recent fighting report that the 92nd regiment was entirely annihilated.

MISCELLANEOUS. United Press Association. London, February 27, “Eye-Witness” reports that during the fighting on the 17th south-east of Ypres that a company of men held a position until all were killed or wounded, and only three of the latter were capable of firing. They kept the enemy at bay until the ammunition was nearly exhausted. Then they sent word to the rear. Seven strong men carried ammunition to the trench. They found the three survivors standing among their dead and disabled comrades, still fixing steadily. They came in the nick of time to help to boat off the assault, and the position was saved. “Eye-Witness” mentions that at one portion of the brickfield a young German officer charged at the head of thirty men waving his sword and reaching the entanglements. He was killed, and still lies there, sword in hand,’ and his thirty comrades dead around him.

. Paris, February 27. Official: From the sea to the Aisno no change is reported.

In Argoune our artillery blew up an ammunition depot near St. Hubert.

Between Argonne and the Meuse the enemy sprinkled our advanced trenches with flaming liquid, forcing us to abandon them. The occupants were seriously burnt. Our counterattack was immediately stopped, the enemy inflicting losses and capturing prisoners. In the Verdun region, and also on the heights of the Meuse, our heavy artillery demolished German gnus, blew up twenty ammunition wagons, annihilated a detachment, and destroyed a whole encampment at Bofshrule. The fighting continues to our advantage. Official: A French aviator dropped bombs on the barracks at Metz. Official: A German flotilla threw bombs behind Nieuport, killing a woman and an old man.

Official: Progress in the Champagne district continues. We captured two successive lines of trenches north of Mesail.

Fearing contamination, the German staff has ordered the exhumation of hastily buried dead on elevated parts of Belgium. The bodies were tied in fours, placed in goods wagons and covered with hay and beet-root and reburied.

Paris, February 26. The report that Carpentier is a prisoner in Germany is untrue. Amste rda m ,Feb ru ary 26.

Professor Ffiedenthal, of Berlin, claims to have discovered a new food from straw. German newpapers declare that it is likely to revolutionise the people’s food. Times and Sydney Sun Service. The Germans are constructing an enormous bridge over the Scheldt, from Hoboken to Antwerp, to enable heavy artillery to cross. The city of Antwerp was compelled to defray the cost. The Pi •ess Bureau stresses the undesirability of publishing photographs taken in localities actually within range of the enemy. Recently a French paper printed a picture showing a priest conducting mass among soldiers- The Germans concluded that the village had been occupied by the French, and opened fire, killing fourteen.