In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 May 1915, Page 5

In the West.

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. UNHID PbMI AJBOOX4.TION. Paris, May 3. Official: Machine-guns stopped the Gorman attack on our right northward of Ypres. Eighty Germans armed with wire cutters, grenades, and brownings, attacked our lines southward of Chaulmes. The majority were shot down. The enemy in the valley of the Aisne and in Champagne employed gases. Bombs charged with inflammable gases hung over the enemy's lines, but did not reach ours. We bombarded the southern front of an entrenched camp at Metz Effectiveness was notk'cao'e. One fort, barracks, and an adjacent railway \u-re also bombarded. GERMANS LOST 12,000 IN YPRES FICHT, (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, May 3. The German staff in Belgium admit they lost 12,000 killed in the Ypres fight. There are now at battle many big guns on both sides, making a curtain of artillery fire as a screen for the concentration. CANADIAN CASUALTIES, 661. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, May 3. The casualty list to April 27 includes 061 Canadians. GENERAL FRENCH'S REPORT. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, .May 3. Sir John French, in his weekly report, states: The Germans attacked Hill 60 on Saturday evening and also .St. Julten on Sunday, using poisonous gases from the trenches and shells, but the attack failed with heavy losses.