The Western Front.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 289, 15 May 1915, Page 5

The Western Front.

BIG FRENCH SUCCESS. MUCH IN ROUND WON. THE FINEST OF.THE WALL Paris, Mav 13. Official: Every house at Ncaville was found to be loopholed, and every cellar •had been turned into a covered'trenu'i. The village was conquered house bi house, and tlie Germans surrendereil in batches. Further north the French, emerging from the Beithonvdle wood, dash«l ihroiigh amid a storm of s'iol, traversed tile enemy's trenches, ami dragged sections of 'Germans, out from underground lairs. Then they sealed the entrenched slopes and took the crest dominating the puiin. Many French officers fell; of four battalion commanders only one was left. Four kilometre.-, were covered .in ninety minutes. No such success has ever previously been achieved in. this. siege warfare, either by the Germans or French.

A coiiimmihjuc states that there was an obstinate .struggle southward ol Notre Dame de Lorctte and violent counter-attacks through the night. We repulsed the enemy with extremely heavy Josses. We carried by assault the entire village of Carency and the wood northward of Hill 125. The garrison holding the village and the wood comprised two infantry battalions, a battalion of Bavarian Chasseurs and six companies ol Pioneers, each of :i«)<) num. These had transformed the loca.ity into a formidable redoubt and offered a desperate resistance. A hnedred were bayoneted and 1050 taken prisoner, including thirty officers, a colonel and major of €hasseuns. We won hundreds of metres ol ground northward of Neuville and seized the road leading to (iivenchy. Tics-id; s the southern end we carried the centre of Neuville, and the Germans were thrown back to the northern end, which we outflank. .

London, May 13,

The Palimns and Ghtirkas prepared tlie advance at Aubers by capturing a wood at Kromelles. The Germans, however, profiting. s>y their Xeuvc Chupelle experience, had cunningly concealed ma-chine-guns during the bombardment. The British had to be content with a footing on the lower slopes of the ridge. The Indians suffered severely and the Lst Clone .'stcrs were l.aillv cut up. The British did good work iii spite of the Germans having strewn the lane with thousands of' star-shaped contrivances, which always had a four-inch spike uppermost. Thq lk-dfords and Highlanders were most prominent. Tuesday night we fired a, million and a Tuesday, night we fired a million and a half .shells' General von Hissing refused the request of Brussels to release M. Max, flavor of Brussels. file renewed fightins: at Hill GO was throughout of tlie most desperate character. Princess Patricia's Regiment of Canadians and the 2nd Glouccsters were almost surrounded, but were saved by the Kifle Brigade and the Argyll High-' landers swimming a section of the Ypres.-. Lys canal and falling on the Gorman flank under intense artillery fire.

FURTHER FRENCH PROGRESS. SEVERAL PLACES TAKEN. Received May 14, 0.15 p.m. Paris, May 14-. Official: In a wood at Hill 125--wo found the corpses of three German companies, which our artillery had annihilated. From Carency ivc advanced to Ablain and Saint Xazaire. We hold all of them except the eastern outskirts, where the struggle continues. We took several hundred prisoners and captured seventeen guns at Neuville and Saint Vaast.

We captured the last line of German trenches, completing the capture . of Bois- Klepretre.

LACK OF MUNITIONS. CAUSE OF BRITISH FAILURE. GERMAN DEFENCES INTACT. ■MORE MEN 1 WAITED. Received May J4, 9.30 p.m. Ijoiislon, May 14, The correspondent of the Times at Dunkirk says the lack of an unlimited supply of high explosive is a fatal bar to British success, hence the.disappoint,, ing results of the., attacks at Fromelles. and Richehourg on Sunday. The French fired 270 round- «/■ high explosive per gun in a single day and levelled defenoos. to (he ground; The liritish found the enemy much more strongly posted than they' expected, hut them was insuflicient explosive. When the infantry stormed the trenches they found- the Gorman garrison undismayed and' many entanglements were intact, while, maxims were ready. As we were unable to maintain ourselves hi the trenches won, the British reserves Were not thrown in. The Germans opposite ihn British liotd almost all the heights. "They have 1 --unrnt hundreds of machine-guns to the points which can he attacked, supported by formidable artillery. If we can break the hard, outer crust of the German defences, the commanders believe we can scatter the German armies. For tin's \\v need more shells and heavy howitzers and more men.

ANOTHER GERMAN ATTACK. BRITISH LINE ALTERED. London, May 13. Sir John French states: Fighting east of Ypres continues. The Germans violently bombarded our line north of the Mcnin road, destroying some tranches. This necessitated a temporary readjustment of the line, -which" has'since been completely readjusted. -There is nothing to report elsewhere.

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