Second Edition. Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 12, 14 May 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Great Britain

INDIA’S GENEROSITY. CARING FOR THE WOUNDED FIGHTERS’. ' TJnithd Pukrb Association. (Received 9.40 a.in.) Delhi, May 13. ' Tlie Indian nqbles are intensely interested in the progress of the war and in the conditions of the combatants) wounded. The leading chiefs of Kathiawa have given £15,000 to purchase motor ambulances. The Bebum of Bhopal has donated £325 to the Belgians, the Maharanee Dauta, £IOOO for motor ambulances; the Maharajah of Patiala, a quantity of clothes for the sikh soldiers and sweetmeats for all Indians on active service on the King’s Birthday; the Rajah of Schawl £66 for comforts for Indians, '■> St. John’s Ambulance Society, which has already given four motor ambulances, is now endeavouring to form a regular fleet. Two motor launches have been sent to the Persian Gulf. The Society has despatched gifts valued at over £45,000. Red Cross gifts include a motor ambulance from the Ranee of Bighri, the ladies of Assam and the provinces of the north-west frontier. English and Indian ladies continue working hard and a constant stream of necessaries and comforts for the soldiers continues to leave India. , \

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports;—, London, 13th May (6.30 p.m.) North of Arras the Allies on Wednesday evening had a brilliant success. On Wednesday and Thursday at Notre Dame, de Lorette they mastered a fort and church, sustaining a violent coun-ter-attack from vast quadrilateral trenches south of the church. In the morning they were entire masters of the position, and inflicted extremely heavy losses On the enemy. The same night they took by assault the whole village of Carency and the wood to the north. The garrison holding Carency built a formidable fedoubt, and although much diminished by the preceding day’s losses in killed, wounded, and prisoners, opposed throughout thg night in a' labyrinth of blockhouses a desperate resistance, which was broken, and at daybreak the Allies were complete masters of the position. The Allies killed hundreds of Germans with the bayonet, making 1050 prisoners, including 30, officers. The Allies’ attacks op Neuville village appreciably progressed, gaining hundreds of metres and capturing the Neuville-Givenchy railway. At Givenchy itself the Allies carried, house by house, the wholecentre of the village, occupying the southern portion on Wednesday morning and throwing the Germans into the north, which the Allies are now overwhelming. The Germans by wireless admit these losses and the loss of much material.