BRITISH WOUNDED KILLED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 221, 5 June 1915, Page 7

BRITISH WOUNDED KILLED.

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER' THROUGH GSAS. j LONDON, .Jauc ■?. An oHeer of a medical corips eastward of Ypres,. writing on the 24tk, says tlio Guard charged through the gas and took the German trenches. The casualties were very severe. The men were compelled to bolt. In most eases the wounded lay in the trenches and their comrades were unable to pull them out. The Germans shot or bayoneted the wounded. The battle was terrific, the British being slaughtered wholesale through the gases. As soon as the gas reached a trench the Germans would rush in and bayonet or shoot the men. PRETTY WORK. LONDON, June 3. Some pretty combined work east of Ypres was carried out by our howitzer? I and machine-guns in co-operation. A party of fifty Germans, clad in khaki, entered the stables at the Chateau of Homge, near the Menin highroad. Machine-guns wore trained on the doorway, howitzers shelled the building, and drove out the enemy, who met a storm of lead from the machinc- ; guns. Twenty-seven fell. HAND GRENADE WARFARE. - LONDON, June 3. "Eye-Witness" says the British hold their own well in hand grenade warfare. German prisoners testify to heavy losses recently in this; way. BLOWING UP THE GERMANS. EXTENSIVE FRENCH MINING. FAR-REACHING OPERATIONS. PARIS, June 3. 'Official: After many months sapping in the Carency sector, seventeen furnaces, each containing three hundred kilogrammes of explosives, were pushed forward under the German lines. On May 9th during a heavj'- bombardment we exploded the seventeen furnaces simultaneously. Almost all the barbed wire entanglements at Chevaus and Defrise were destroyed, trenches filled, many banking works armed with mitrailleuses and bomb-throwers wrecked, and-the enemy's communion- ' tions broken. Many Germans were obliged to surrender. All the enemies in the subterranean works and furnaces were rendeed useless. Seventy Germans were captured in one gallery. Others died from suffocation. The operation contributed to our success in the Lorette, Carency and Neuville sector. THE GERMAN ARMY. 7,000,000 IN FIRING. LINE. 3,000,000 TRAINING (Times and Sydney Sun Cables). LONDON, June 3. An American, returned from Germany, states it is estimated that at present there are seven million men in the German army and another three millions training. The 1915 class (boys of 17 years) has not yet been called.