Second Edition. In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 29, 4 June 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West

BLASTING A WAY THROUGH.

[United Punas Association.] Paris, June 3

Official: After many mouths’ sapping at tiie Carency sector, 17 furnaces, each containing three hundred kilogrammes of explosives, were pushed under the German lines. On May 9th, during a heavy bombardment, we exploded the* seventeen furnaces simultaneously. /Almost-all the barbed-wire entanglements, chevreux and defrise were destroyed, and trenches wore Idled. Bomb-throwers wrecked the enemy’s communications, which were broken. Many Germans were obliged to surrender. All the enemy’s 'subterranean works and. furnaces were rendered useless. Seventy Germans were captued in one gallery and otheis died of suffocation. The opration conti ibuted to our success oin the Lorette-Carency-Neifville sector. BRITISH BAYONET WORK. Paris, June 3. Official: The British; carried Chateau Hooge at the bayonet point. We gained further ground in the labyrinth. (Mr division between’ May 9 and June 1, near:Carency,' Ablain. St. Nasiatre, and Sonohez, took 3100 prisoners, including ill officers, and buried 2600 German Our losses were 3200, of which two-thiids were slightly wounded. R HEIMS BOMBARDED. Paris, June 2. The Germans twice bombarded Rheims, particularly the cathedral.

FIGHTING AT YPRES.

Lndon, June 3. ■"

An officer of the medical corps eastward of Ypres, writing on May 2-1, says the Guards charged'through the gas and took the German trenches.' Their casualties were very severe, the men being compelled to holt. In most cases the wounded lay in the trenches, their comrades being urhlble to pul! them out. The Germans shot and hayonetted the wounded. The ba 11ie was terrific, the British being slaughtered wholesale through the gases. As soon as the gas reaches'the trench the Germans rush in with the bayonet or shoot the men.