In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 5

In the West.

INDIANS UNDER FIRE.

GREAT GALLANTRY OF ALL.

“NEVER KNOWN TO SHIRK DANCER."

(Received 10.20 a.m.) Loudon. August 15

An officer with the Indian headquarters, describing the Lahore division’s operations round Ypres on April 26, states : The Fortieth Pathaiis had their first experience under shell fire while mar-i ching round the moat south of Ypres. The firing was particularly heavy, and many- shells fell in the water or hit the walls, but they did no damage.

The men cheered each successive miss. Suddenly, a shell dropped in the middle of tiie Ynsnrzai Company, which was about the centre of the column, and there were twenty-three casualties. The Regiment moved on unperturbed with scarcely a pause. The Jullundur Brigade had "three shells dropped in their midst, hut they continued. Asphyxiating gas for fifty yards so affected their eyes as to incapacitate the men from using the rifle sometimes. During the advance, Colonel llendick, of the 40th, was mortally wiunded. His adjunct dragged him into a ditch, where he lay till dusk. His last thoughts were with his regiment, and when placed on a stretcher he said: “Send two of iny Pathans with me. If I die on the way to the hospital, I should like them to he with me.”

I The majority of the lOth’s machine* (gun detachment were hit and the guns | were held up. A Sepoy named Munkhtiara, who was sheltering in a small ditch in advance, volunteered to go hack and bring up I a gun. He had twice to cross a space of 250 yards, which was swept with enfilade mac-hine-gun and rifle fir-e, but he succeeded, and returned under a hail of Indicts carrying the gun. A Sepoy named IV T ajdihiW|| r^^: the 120th Baluchis, to fymteeied ; ito ciifry message; under th« heaviest shell and rifle fire, , and had (scarcely- gone !< k quarter of the distance when he was hit by a (hit of 1 'Jillll-jUid was 'iAiclU-'- ’ h:lt 'r . >l t l.'j r*-n .wounded, | being al racist knocked out. Hp|Wever, ibfci rininagctdito crawl on and .deliver the-messdge.f! 1 Fifty of fthet 3 1 Cfcnpdtghtsv 'sixty'} ,H?*.nche.sters,'caiidf ditiall parties ofi (the* advanced a Anile toWer open ( ground i > hei ng> gp ’ea tly reduced ini numbers. They got'- 'to within a few yards of the German* line,' when they met poisonous gas and 1 were half suffocated; yet they held 'their, ground for a terrible twelve hmtrs till reinforcements relieved them.. The gallantry ! of i the stretcher-lienj'ers in t overy , action'.rail £ wl#l whothen Sepoy or of the more humble Kahaiivjitney weye,; never -. known rto shirk,dai|ger. .. a a dJi’,l''{» r/.ouii k 1 •tifT ... .. c e sWan~ pe a at--f A t kr*’ 1

i.-. , ■ T- ),i jI, , V/.U it.'jt-.'i ! Amsterdam, August 14. : ,A statement from Berlin states that -Di’i..Liebkneehe, writing from the eastern front, gives* hdtfce ‘td : a.skiiih the Reichstag whether the Government is disposed to abandon the idea of any annexation whatever and to enter into immediate pourparlers if other beligerents are similarly inclined.

' ■ . I ANTI-WAR CONGRESS MOOTED. United Peess Association. Amsterdam, August 14. The Netherlands Anti-war Council has asked the Foreign Minister to collaborate in the formation of a conference of neutral Powers to, sit throughout the war, to work in the interests of peace. The Council has issued a warm appeal exhorting the belligerent peoples to proclaim their desire for peace. The Council says: “You won’t be expected to livo up to the admonition of ‘love your enemy, or your neighbor.’ All that is necessary is to ‘respect your neighbour like thyself;’ ” A PRIEST IMPRISONED. (Received 9 a.m.) Paris, August 15. The com-mandant at Charleroi sentenced a priest to two years’ hard labor for reading to his parishioners particulars at, German crimes in Belgium.

MANNESMANN BROTHERS ESCAPE. [United Press Association,] (Received 9 a.m.) Madrid, August 15. The members of Mauncsmanu Brothers, a -Morocco firm, which was notorious at the time of the Agadir incident. ami were arrested at the beginning of the war and interned at Casablanca, have escaped and are now at Seville. SAPPERS AT WORK. 'Hie High Commissioner reports:— London, August 15 (2.45 p.m.) At Artois, the enemy’s advance works were mined and destroyed. An ammunition depot was exploded between Xonch and Ransart. The High Commissioner reports;— London, August 15 (5 p.m.t Last night in Lorraine the Allies exploded a mine, occupying the cavity after a violent struggle. In the Vosges the Gormans exploded a mine without causing loss,

HEAVY ARTILLERY DUELS.

AIR RAID ON WORKS DEPOT.

(Received 10.30 a.in.) Paris, August 15

A coiauSmnqiie states: There were particularly heavy artillery duels at SpWchewj- Boelineourfc, ' 'Beausejonr, Leiutry* and Ileillon. We exploded *a tuiue northward of Puisalene and occupied ihe : crater after a lieree liand- ' <

1 ■ >.M V ' 1 Nineteen aeroplanes bombarded the Gerinauivorks depot in the Valley of dropped 108 shells upon 'the .objects aimed at. ,AVI returned safely. . !

ENEMY REPULSED BY FRENCH.

Paris, August 15. Official: The enemy attacked along the whole front at tke Marie Therese sector, but were eyerywhere repulsed with appreciable losses.