In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 24, 28 May 1915, Page 6

In the West

TRENCH NOTES FROM THE FRONT. x United PaKßi Abbootation. (Received 1.15'p.m.) London,- May 27. In connection with the German aeroplane cabled on the. 21st, “Lye-Wit-ness” states: The machine fell headlong to the pairapet ofr a German trench and excited tire elWhy’s interest. Meanwhile, the Frenchmen, trained their machine gnus on the spot, and when sufficient fcierinaiis had collected round the aeroplane, opened hre and decimated the onlookers.* A British howitzer shelled a bathing establishment at La Basse, wounding twenty to thirty Germans. During the action on the Kith and 17th in the Festubert district, the Fifty-Seventh Prussian Infantry lost 2-100 out of 8000. Some Germans at Pilkem were suffocated hy gas escaping from a cylinder which was blown up by a French shell. Our artillery effected a similar result in a trench near the Ypres-Comines canal.