THE CANADIANS' EXPLOITS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 272, 27 April 1915, Page 5

THE CANADIANS' EXPLOITS.

OB EAT JUBILATION IN CANADA. Received April 26, 11 p.m. , Montreal, April 2G. Tlie exploit of the Canadians on the Ystfr was bulletined at the newspaper offices. The public rushed special editions, and were delighted with the unusually warm language of the War Office despatch. The Governor-General (the Duke of Connaught) inspected the Montreal Home Guard, and congratulated the officers upon the gallantry of .their brothers in arms in taking the guns, which were specially welcome. He recalled the exploit in South Africa, when Major Hollard won the Victoria Pross. '

There is great anxiety over the casualty lists, as the' Canadians had already a thousand casualties at Hill 00 and around Ypres. The Toronto Star says it was no fault of the Canadians that they yielded ground. Annihilation or retreat was the only option. They did well to extricate themselves without more serious loss. Such a situation was the severest teat of discipline.

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES. DARING AIR RAIDS. Amsterdam, April 25. The Telegraph's Roulers correspondent states that the fighting near Poelcapelle and- Langemarck was most seven'. Thousands of Germans were buried in a huge cemetery near Moorslede and the churches are filled wiili wounded, The German artillery) was posted south of Moorslede with the horses attached. Each gun is ready to move, owing to the Allies' frequent air raids.

Tlie German plans embrace a strong attempt to cross tlie Yser anil force their way to Funics and Dunkirk.

The Allied airmen make daily raids between (lie Yser and Bruges, including visits to tlie airsheds at 1 Gits, Lissewege and Cesthel. Many Germans have boon killed.

The Germane heavily bombarded an airmail at Gontrode, east of Ghent. The airman allowed his machine to fall rapidly upside ilowA, and the Germans ceased fire, believing he was hit. Suddenly lie righted the machine and dropped bombs, damaging the airsheds, and escaped. A RESOURCEFUL AVIATOR. London, April 20. The eye-witness states that the airman who visited Ghent threw a bomb nt the airshed from six thousand feet. Owing to being fired at from a balloon and by many soldiers below, he got above the balloon and threw the bomb, but missed. Then he planed quickly under the balloon, so that' the balloonists and soldiers did not fire for fear of hitting each other. The airmail threw hand grenades until he was only two hundred ieet high, when he dropped his last i 'bomb on the airshed, 'causing a heavy explosion. TTe escaped, tlioug-h tV planes were perforated with bullet'-holes.