In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 53, 5 March 1915, Page 5

In the West

EXCITING INCIDENTS IN THE CAMPAiiW. United Press Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Paris, March 4. A communique .states: "Our artillery demolished the enemy's trenches on the sand dunes. The bombardment of Rheims lasted all day. a shell falling every three minutes. The. enemy captured our advance trench near Notre Dame Lorette. A French airman yesterday bombarded the powder magazine northward of Donauschiugen, flames rising 400 metres. Two regiments of German Guards fought with great ferocity north-west of Mesnie, and were completely defeated.

GERMANS' CLAIM TO CAPTURE OF FRENCHMEN. TJnitkd Press Association. ("Received 10.25 a.m.) Amsterdam, March 4. A German communique claims that they captured eigTTt French officers, 558 men, and seven machine guns at Xotre Dame Lorette.

FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT.

United Press Association. Paris, March 4

Official: Further progress was made on the Souain-Mesuil-Beausejour front. We inflicted enormous losses on the Prussian Guards at Mesuil.

THE AWFUL ZONE OF DEATH.

London, March 4

"Eye-witness'' reports an accidental explosion of German magazines north of Armentieres. "The country between the hostile, lines at Ypres," he says, "defies description. Imagine a wood, with most of the trees felled or half-sawn, lying with their branches on the ground, moreover, a wood standing on soft, muddy clay, in which there are pits every few yards and several feet deep, the whole a tangle of dead vegetation and mudpits heaped from end to end witli thousands of German corpses, the majority of whom have lain there since November. Such is the awful zone of death."

GERMAN METHODS OF OBTAINING SUPPLIES.

United Press Association. Rome, March 4

Le Messagero states that the headquarters of the German contraband shippers is in Barcelona, whence merchandise is shipped to Amsterdam, via Genoa. As the cargoes are leaving a neutral maritime station for another neutral port, they are immune from capture. German emissaries at Genoa despatch goods to Amsterdam via Switzerland. .When the train reaches Germany the goods are taken out, and the firm in Amsterdam never complains of non-arrival. .;■ THE INDIAN WOUNDED. GURKHA'S QUAINT ANTICIPATION. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 4. The Indiau wounded occupy Bijo«, « seaside resort. They are a hard lot, and one Gurkha, not familiar with the coddling which the Indians are receiving, remarked: "No doubt, the Government will warm the sea for us, if possible!"