Second Edition. In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 98, 28 April 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West

FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. v NiTX b P ak no Aaaooiatiok . (Received 2.10 p.mi) Berlin, April 27. A communique states: Ah attack by hostile artillery south of Ypres failed under our tire; with heavy losses. We evacuated Lizerne after the'"enemy's artillery had completely destroyed the houses. We maintain Tete-de-Ponfc eastward of Lizerne, on the left bank of the canal. , ~, OFFICIAL NEWS; prisoners! shot in cold BLOOD. Cnitkd Pbkm Association. . • ~ , ~i London, April 27. High Commissioner reports":— Army casualties: Ten officers killed, i 27 wounded. . Lord Kitchener, in the House of Lords, Said British prisoners had been stripped and maltreated in various ways. In some cases the evidence proved they had also been shot in cold blood. - sven pounded officers were wantonly insulted and frequently struck, according to the testimony of Germany, themselves. ■ •, ,Ifc was only right to say that the German hospitals are exempted froni the of de- • liberate ..inhumanity. The Germans last week,introduced a method of placing opponents hors.de combat by.the use of asphyxiating gases in order to prevail, when, an attack, according to th© rules of war, might otherwise fail. ' * SIR JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT. ~-..,■ London,. Apfd ,2". Yesterday afternoon the French, cooperating pft the Jeft, : re-took .H.etsas.; Our artillery took full advantage of several,opportunities, inflicting severe casualties. ■ COTTON WADS,JFOR THE NOSTRILS* (Received *9,2Q a.m.),.,, Paris, April 27, Many German prisoners possesed cotton wads, which, they state, they inserted in their nostrils when charging through the gas fumes. FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Paris, April, 27. A communique states: We coifftolidated our positions, north of Ypues and on. : the iVleuse heights, and recaptured Hartmannsweilerkop and t»;ok prisoners.