In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 5

In the West.

ON THE YSER’S BANKS. United Puehm Association. (Received 8.55 a.m.) Paris, April 29. A communique states: Wo continue to advance on the right bank of the Yser, and captured 150 pri-oners and two mitrailleuses. INCENDIARY BOMBS ON HOSPITALS. (Received 8.55 a.m.) Paris, April 29. Tim enemy’s aviators dropped incendiary bombs on Kpernay, which is exclusively occupied by hospital units. CANADIANS COVERED WITH GLORY. GALLANT BRITISH TERRITORIALS. Dunkirk, April 29. On Wednesday the Canadians, worn out with the four days and nights of unceasing struggle were relieved, and retired covered with glory. Their ranks were sadly thinned. The whole fighting took place along a front of five miles, the most critical days being Saturday and Sunday, when the Germans brought up howitzers and heavy artillery to advanced positions. They covered every highroad with a curtain of fire to prevent reinforcements, the Germans using now corps lavishly. Many were badly demoralised in facing shellfire for the first time. There was a change on Monday, when the Allies made a genera! offensive, bombing the junctions, thus preventing the Germans from reinforcing their exhausted troops. The Germans suffered great losses at Hairing and Saint Jalien. The British territorials fought with great gallantry. It was their baptism of fire for many units. When called upon on Friday afternoon to reinforce the Canadians, the territorials brilliantly assisted, capturing Saint .Inlien, and moved up on an open road along the hanks of the river Haanebeck, though the Germans directed a murderous machine-gun fire from ruined houses. Unfortunately, the territorials did not enjoy the full fruits of their gallantry, at St. Julien was found too far advanced on the line, which had to he remodelled nearer Ypros. The British were now pressing the offensive home, the French making many prisoners, capturing machineguns and recovering their own guns from the swamp. The Belgians and French also attacked the bridge-head from the north of Steeustraate, the British attack on the other sale rendering the German tenure perilous. British reports state that they secured three thousand German prisoners during the two days following ihe German check. r l lie British successfully attacked Frelinghein, near Armentieres; also Epinette, where the infantry, supported by an armored train and heavy artillery, smashed their way into the Gorman trenches with grenades. CANADA’S MOTTO —“NEVER BEATEN!” London, April "29. The special correspondent with the Canadians cables that “Never Beaten” is a motto Canada can now wear. It was Canada’s battle. The Allied troops are now thinking only of revenge for the bloodiest battle of the bloodiest war in history. It is estimated that the Canadian casualties vary from between eight to ten thousand but it must be remembered that hundreds were overcome by gas. Officers on the extreme left of the Canadian lines state that the advancing enemy bayonetted scores of unconscious men. USE OF POISONOUS CAS. CHLORINE AS THE LATEST WEAPON. London, April 29. Professor Sir James Dewar, who is a leading authority on the constitution of gases, says there is little doubt that the latest German weapon is liquid chlorine, which for some years Germany has been manufacturing tremendously, and practically supplying the world with chlorine. They, undoubtedly, have hundreds of tons available. When allowed to escape in the atmosphere it immediately evaporates and forms yellow gases. If the wind were favorable it would be the easiest thing in the world to inundate a country for miles ahead. Being heavier than air it drifts in a thick fog along the surface of the ground, and escape from its deadly effects is well-nigh impossible. SUGGESTION TO USE “TURPENITE.” Paris, April 29. The newspaper Le Temps says that the of gases is the last crime left for the Germans to perpetrate. The German explanation that the Hague rules specify only asphyxiating projectiles is mere hypocrisy, for the rules are not aimed against any special engine for spreading gases, hue (against asphyxiating gas generally. The journal declares that it is necessary to employ some methods of retaliation without delay. If what is said about “Turpeiitite” asphyxiating j shells is true, no doubt France will be able to war with these latest methods on terms of certain equality with the enemy, J The Germans had metallic tubes projecting from the first lino of trendies. At a given signal they lighted tubes. Red flames shot up a distance of 12

yards, followed by a thick green and yellowish smoke of chlorine. The Germans retired to their second trenches. They also threw fuses, giving off similar smoke. | Turpin, the inventor oi melinite, (suggests that pumping liquid ammonia into the poisonous gas clouds and flasks of ammonia would enable soldiers to euluile the German poisonous •fumes. The War Office lias ordered masks. IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE. Rotterdam, April 29. The Frank further Zeitung asks whether the enemy really believes that it makes any difference whether hundreds of guns and mortars and hundreds of thousands of grenades are (thrown in a small district, tearing every living tiling to pieces and making the Germans trenches an inferno, or, on the other hand, whether the German fling grenades spreading gas more deadly than the poison of the English explosives, but covering a wider area and obtaining its end more quickly without pain and suffering to torn bodies. MISCELLANEOUS. Timms and Sydney Sun Service. London, Aprl 29. The Miners’ Union of France has decided not to celebrate Labor Day and not leave work. It pelads with their comrades to work similarly. London, April 29. In the House of Commons Mr. J. M. Robertson, secretary to the Board of Trade, stated that 47,000 women had volunteered for war service and that 13,000 would shortly be engaged in the manufacture of munitions. General Hutton has resigned the command of the 21st Division of the new army, owing to ill-health. A highly placed diplomat at Rome, writing to a friend at Home, says Italy need not be expected to intervene until the end of May at the earliest. The Daily Chronicle’s Luxembourg correspondent spates that the Germans lost sixty thousand men at Sedan on the first and second September, forty thousand at Longwy, where the Crown Prince suffered a nervous breakdown, and was only rescued at the sacrifice of an enormous number of men. The Crown Prince’s military exploits are a standing joke since he spent the major portion of his time in riotous dissipatou at Luxembourg.