in the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 83, 12 April 1915, Page 5

in the West.

AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS.

‘EYE-WITNESS’ DESCRIBES HOW THE FIGHTING IS CONTROLLED. “PLAY OF SUMMER LIGHTING.” Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8.0 u.m.) London. April 10. “Lye-witness” describes how the fighting is controlled by the superior commanders. The brigade commanders will probably be ensconced in the dug-outs, cellars, and shelters witnin a few hundred yards of the firing line, a telephone connecting them with 'he battalion headquarters, through which the information is passed to the army headquarters, which is at a farmhouse situated a mile from the firing line. Outside the house everything seems to depend upon the maps which record every change in the position. As reports from the front arrive, the struggles are made partially clear. A message tells that the battalion checked the front force of the enemy, and perhaps the next tells that some brigadier had sent his last reserves to work round the flank, while the third may notify the capture of prisoners. The message comes through with a volume of sound, and there is a period of suspense until the next report states laconically that the counter-attack was repulsed. Throughout the hours of darkness flares rise to the sky over the battlelied, and the beams of the searchlights occasionally wander across, lighting up the battered parapets and the dark patches of blood which are still on the forts, the dead lying or being half immersed in the water which fills the ruins of the trenches. Near at hand, the darkness is pierced by flashes from the rifles, while far away at the front flashes from the discharges of the guns are reflected in the sky like the play of summer lightning.

MIDNIGHT ORGIES. GERMAN MILITARY SCANDAL IN BRUSSELS. FATALITIES AT FREE FIGHT. United Press Association. (Received 9.-5 a.m.) Paris, April 11. The Grand Hotel, Brussels, which was transformed into the German headquarters, lias been closed in consequence of the scandals. A certain general, after an all-night orgie, discovered that important documents had disappeared, and several officers committed suicide. Some days later, on another occasion after a midnight orgie, a free light with sabres and revolvers ensued, owing to Bavarian officers jeering at the scars on the Prussians’ faces, five officers being killed and several injured. IMPORTANT SUCCESS. HEAVY GERMAN LOSS AT LES EPARCES. United Press Association, London, April 11.

Official: Prisoners emphasise the importance of the Les Eparges success. The Germans brought up a division of the Fifth Army Corps, and the best troops in the army were told to hold the fortress at all costs. The general said he was willing to sacrifice a division, and army corps, or even a hundred thousand men, if necessary. The Germans lost thirty thousand at Les Eparges in two months.

We gained ground at Les Eparges beyond the German trenches captured yesterday, which were choked with dead. Later we repulsed two counter-attacks. The British repulsed a night attack on Wednesday. Official: The capture of Les Enargcs was characterised by desperate bayonet lighting. ■ GERMANS REGAIN LEFT BANK. Paris, April 10, Official: The Geripaiis re-crossed the left bank of the Ysor,near Driergrachten, and captured a Belgian trench. “THERE IS NOTHING NEW.” Wellington, April 10. Sir John French reports; —“There is nothing now.” FOR HONOR’S SAKE. Paris, April 11. There was a sensational trial of Captain Herail, charged with murder-

ing liis wife at Compeigne, whore t'‘£ Hussars wore stationed. The couple were devoted to each other. Madame bad accidentally heard where her husband was stationed- She left her three small children iu the south of France and came to Compeigne. She obstinately refused to go home when she learned that no wives were allowed to remain near their husbands. The commanding officer threatened a court-

martial and the withdrawal of Herail’s Legion of Honor, but the wife refused to listen to reason. Driven to desperation, Herail drew a revolver and killed his wife. The jury acquitted him.

NURSED BY KING ALBERT. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, April 10. During a bayonet attack on the Yscr a French infantry lieutenant, in consequence of his ardour, fell into the enemy’s hands, wounded. The (Hermans believed him dead, but he managed to crawl to a wood, where he fainted. Regaining consciousness he found two Belgian officers, who dressed his wounds and gave him cordial drinks, and carried him to a waiting motor-car, "where he discovered that one of the officers who had tended him was King Albert of Belgium.