In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 29, 4 June 1915, Page 5

In the West.

/!OLSNT INFANTRY WORK EAST OF NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE. T nitbu Pbebs Association. (Received 8.55 a.m.) Paris, June 3. A communique states: Very violent infantry actions developed east of Notre Dame De Lorette.hut the situation i s unchanged. Eight hundred Germans vere made prisoners in a labyrinth ince the 31st, of which nine were offi--•ers and fifty non-coms. Two machine guns were captured.

THE FRENCH ADVANCE. (Received 8.55 a.m. 1 ) Paris, June 3. The French north of Souchez on he road to Aix Houlette drove the enemy out the woods after a stiff hand-to-hand encounter, and are now advancing on Souchez on three sides. File penetration of the labyrinth is necessarily slow and the loss of life’ heavy, but the reduction of this trongly-fortified position is essential oo further French advance on Vimy iml Lens. CASUALTY TOTALS. The High Commissioner reports:— London, June 2, 9.50 a.m. Army officers killed 29, wounded 83, gassed 7, missing 16, prisoners 3; •non killed 364. wounded 945, gas killad 7, gas injured 147, missing 269. GERMAN BEASTS. “I want you to thoroughly urider.taud” (writes the master of an English vessel doing transport service '.cross the English Channel) “that ill those stories of German atrocities in Belgium and France are quite true —of women and old men bayoneted and stabbed to death, burned, beaten, maltreated in every way, of young girls raped by thousands. Every woman they could get hold of was treated that way, and it was done in the sight of their men folk, who were tied up and forced to see it, and then they were shot and bayoneted. I could tell von heaps of these things—l have spoken to these very people. I have met men who have seen. I have talked to one man who lay on the field jeverely wounded, unattended for 18 unirs, who saw these things done. 1 know of young English school girls in school in Belgium who were treated that way—ruined in body and soul. There is one poor girl, only 16, whose borne is near to mine; she was at a convent school near Bruges. She is now crazy and' pregnant.. She was kept as the sport of a German regiment for three weeks. The nuns of the shine school were treated in the same way—is there anything that will wipe that out? 1 tell you truly that my one wish and hope is to kill a German. Nothing can ever excuse in ray eyes what they have done.”