In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 91, 20 April 1915, Page 5

In the West.

THE RED CROSS. A WONDERFUL ORGANISATION. j Tmt.H and Sydney Son Service. i (Received S.f) a.m.) London, April 19. I The Red < ross has 401 motor aniliulanops working with the British in Franco; also 75 touring cars. 32 motor lorries, 21 motor cyclists, eight travel--1 ling kitchens, and Jive travelling work[shops. Ninety care are always held in reserve in instant readiness for service. During March 33,931 wounded land sick were moved in trains to the hospitals and ships at Boulogne. The average number of ambulances is 66 daily, conveying 461 patients. The car. further, has two convoys, each consisting of fifty ambulances and lour touring cars at the front, which collect the wounded and take them to the Held hospitals, shells and bullets frequently falling around them.

IN THE AISNE VALLEY. L.iitkd Pbkbs Association Paris, April 19. Official: Our artillery stopped an attack on the trenches at Hois de St. Marte, in the Aisne Valley. A subsequent bayonet charge inflicted serious losses on the enemy. GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS. (Received 10.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, April 19. A German communique claims that they repulsed a British attack near the Ypres-Comines railway with heavy British losses, and also claims that they recaptured Garras Inglenumster. FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Paris, April 19. A communique says: The British near Zevartelen captured two hundred metres of German trenches. We continued our progress at the Fecht, capturing a crest at Burgkorpfle on the north bank dominating the valley above the,/range of heights commanding the river. On the south side .opposite Burgkorpfle notable progress was made in the Schenepfeurieth.

AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

SUCCESSFUL THREE-DAYS* ACTION. (Received 2.5 p.m.) London, April 19. ■ The Press Bureau states that a successful action, commencing on the evening of the 17th, culminated on Sunday-in the capture of an important hill Xo. 00, two miles south of Zillebeke. The hill dominates the country to the north and north-west.