Second Edition. In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 June 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West.

THE HEBUTERNE FIGHT. FRENCHMAN'S GALLANT WORK. ) Unitid Fbiis Association: (Received 2.15 p.m.) •' ; Paris, June 13. ' Official— ]>etails of the fighting at Hebuterne show that it was severe be- / tweeii the 7th and 10th. The Germans occupied a sharp salient at Serve, three kilometres from Ilehuterue. Both villages were situated on rising ground, facing each other, anil the .German trenches lay half way-be-tween, fronting Toutvent farm, which was enclosed by a line of bigHrees and garrisoned by 1000 of the Seventeenth Baden-Regiment, all of whom were placed hors de combat. Not a man , escaped, while two companies of reserves were almost entirely blotted out in the hist counter-attack. Two battalions of the Niuqty-Xiuth German .* Regiment, who were hurriedly brought -up from the Arras sector without food, sufficed heavily. Our prisoners to Jung 11 were eighty, including ten officers. Our men displayed great dasji.,: The assault vas fixed at five o'clock in the morning. Our batteries prepared the way, and soon a!' the positions were covered *n smoke, the Germans meanwhile seeding up heavy fire on our trenches. Precisely at five o'clock our first line quitted" the trenches and dashed,into the lur.iace. In ten minutes they had passed over two of the German trenches aad had reached a point where thev were ordered to entrench. A second wave cleared out the German trenches behind our first' line. On proceeding in the evening our artillery had cut the comniiinication trenches, depriving the enemy of food and ammunition supplies. "We found the Germans squatting and crouching in little groups. Some fired occasional shots, and when the resisted were dealt with the 'others surrendered. After the capture of the positions, we cleared out the choked communication trenches under a heavy German cannonade, and consolidated our new position., ..