TWO GERMAN TORPEDOERS SUNK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 201, 3 May 1915, Page 5

TWO GERMAN TORPEDOERS SUNK.

BY BRITISH DESTROYERS. LONDON, May 2. German torpedoers sunk the trawler Columbia. Four British destroyers , after an hour's chase, sunk both torpedoers, and rescued two officers and 44 of the crew. Both events were in the vicinity of ihe Galloper Hinder Lightship. BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK. TJmeialV'The destroyer Keen;;! •'•-. submarined en Saturday. Four oulcers and twenty-cne nam wore save'.!. ?.nO. steam s 30 knots an hcur). A THRILLING STOEY. INCIDENTS OF HEROISM. LONDON, May 1. The Press Bureau has published the record of an officer with the Canadians. It states that four divisions, supported by immensely superior heavy artillery, attacked the second and third Canadian brigades, which were holding live thousand yards of front from the Ypres-Roulers railway • to the YnrosPoelcapelle road. When the Zouaves retreated, the Canadians, at a mo- I

meat's notice, had to extend their line la-nine thousand yards. Later on Thursday the first Canadian Brigade, which was in reserve, was hurried v. p. The Canadian Scottish Battalion and the Tenth Battalion led the assault on a wood west of S. Julien. > As cabled, they found that the Germans had blown up four guns which were captured on the evening of the 22nd. Dur-ing-the, assault the fire from machineguns played upon the Canadians like watering, pots. The situation was so

critical that it was essential to counterattack the German trenches, two and •■>. half miles ahead. General Mercer led The First and Fourth;.. asassisted by a British, Brigade. Colonel Surehill, v.ho was carrying ' a -cane, ■v.vdly rallied the men,, who were wavering under the' withering fire, and c , moment, later fell dea'd'Ayhile leading the Fourth Battalicm"' the Canadianssprang forward to avenge him,.ahd.a.u •stonishirg charge followed, which wa? y:, : :shed home in the face of a direct frontal fire in broad daylight. After a hand to hand struggle ~the-last German was bayoneted ..;:r:d. the- trenchc. c won. Meanwhile Genna;-s made sew-. eral miasions to poison us w'.th gas. f("■•;.'.iug- the Montreal High:''rider- i - •' abandon tbeir trer.eLes; h ■:'■.' ''tliey Lilied and reoeeupied therm;•; T;hoif.rix-.-i i.vv. onslaught finally ,t);e. r f-hi-r?t Brigade tc retire its left flank* Tul.h-.n wood. Captain McCca'?;. Mwv.trc-s] Highlanders, sc-nio«:dy>' wounded in :> trench. He might l::vr' been carried to safety. lv.*# - hc r^'.^-*? 1 ' and cont-nr.cd; tG-..eeru;w-/Ml: ' rlei'K we're received to vithiTrav.-," ,; icx men wished to take him, but MeCraig resolutely refused to burpe.-. thom, aad was left in the abandone/h trench with three loaded revolvers.. life 'As dearly; p.s possible. .Sever. IL.L : : sh ba.ttaiic.r-fl ro:r.for?.;d trc.C;;,-e disus on Pr'd-y .but -i.'-'-* G/Traans iticVecoed iheir ,! .ftißfer-y»>.'fi'"'-and. with o.vorwjbelmiiip sur'.fjrioriiv . numbers,..stubbornly- centeslirg eve;•. yard... the Third Brigade nb;v doned St. Julien it was ' imi>t>ssi.li ; '

-■without hazarding a large force, to <r;-- ; dntahgle v twp or three hundred IvUr.i;.t;real,.JEJ.igljJjviiders and Koyal Montrecv;ers who were in St. Julien. Their rifle fire was heard for hours after the rest of the Canadians had left. If the Montrealers died they died worthy of. Canada. Meanwhile the retirement of the Third Brigade , t l#ft .Brigadier-Gen. Curry's Second Brigade "in the,ai*v" Brigadier-General Curry flung his.left .flank' southwards, as the Third rßigade "had done when expelled from their trenches by the emission of : gas.... JBri-gadier-Generai Curry counter-attacked: and re-took the trenches at the bayonet point. The Canadians did not leave, the, trenches until the German artillery was. obliterated. General Anderson,. on Sunday, commanding, .the. British rein-,, foreementa, took up the attack. As the Britishers passed the Canadians'., lines they paused and gave, deep-throated, cheers for Canada. ...The tacks were pressed, ; so fiercely on,>Mon- ; day that General Alderson asked General Curry if his shrunken brigade was able to return to the firing line." He' replied, "The men are -tired, -'.,' but ate"ready.and glad to return.'' Curry's brigade, though reduced to. its original strength, hottes section of., the ..fight, hel^- theirj. position through' jfonday, jand. onlyv-Te-tired from the fight,, >

THE FOURTH' REiNFORCEMEtif £7 The Minister has been advised that the Fourth Reinforcements arrived at of cart an well/Some men in hospital, but!no one" was scripiieiv ill. The general healtfc on all th was .good. Two ;;hor&es were. Ipst. and some were sIcE.-; 'W- "■■■ T ".' '-?'