Second Edition. In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 32, 6 October 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West

THE LOOS BATTLEFIELD. CORRESPONDENT'S VIVID PICTURE. United Press Association. , (Received 1.45 p.xn.) London, October 5. A vivid picture of the Loos battlefield is given by Mr Gibbs in the Chronicle. |He writes: 1 went to-day to the centre of the great battlefield, where heavy fighting is still going on, and stood near the famous Loos redoub|b. A little distance away, looming grim and gaunt against the grey sky, rose tall steel columns of mining works. I can hardly put into words the picture of the scenes through which I .passed, and the dreadful aspect of the battlefields upon which the' sun shone with splashes of light through stormy clouds with the turmoil of war in the background, and thousands of men moving in steady columns forward and backwards in the queer tangled way they do in battle. Passing over the parapets I saw the ' whole panorama of the battleground. It was but an ugly naked plain, rising to Hill Inch and Laisnew on the north, falling to Loos on the East, and rising again to Hill 70. I saw two men clad in khaki carrying a German gas cylinder and whistling as they passed. Ihe German trenches was a ■ minute’s tun across the open ground. The dead were still heaped about them —a mass of horror. Down below in t#>e town of Loos they were digging out the dead from deep cellars, removing them for burial, and piling up German helmets, letters, weapons, and a great store of booty. One warning must be written. We made a successful advance, but there for the present it ends, and people at Home will be bitterly disappointed if they expect to read of the capture of a tow'll every time they sit down to breakfast. We achieved a magnificent succesjs, but the way is still far to go before the end.