STRUGGLE IN THE WEST.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12539, 10 May 1915, Page 4

STRUGGLE IN THE WEST.

STRENUOUS LIGHTING ROUND YPRES. Received- Ma* 10, at 6.5 a.m. London, May 8. At dawnvesterday the Germans vioattacked the British lines sit St julien. The attack was repulsed, with hea'vv losses to the enemy. At Hill 60 the British have retaken ;i part of the trenches lost on luesdav evening. . _ London, May !). Sir Jo'hm French reports that in thefighting south-east of Yprcs onl'mhi) there was no maternal change, but wo •recaptured a trench lost on lhurscUiy. The enemv, on Saturday morning, after -a heavy bombardment, started a violent attack on the trenches on the frontier-between the Ypres-Poekapelle aud Ymes-Menin reads. I'i.giit.ng continues with counter-attacks. Pans, May 9.

Official.—The Allies captured a strong German work aud progressed nearly a. kilometre on the right bank or the Fecht, along a 1500-metre trout, towards Metzeral. Received May 10. at 10.10 a.m.

London, May 9. After severe fighting on the afternoon of the 2nd our Hno north of \]>ros was re-established in the evening. There was an indication on Monday morning of a renewal of the attack, hut our guns fired on considerable bodies of the. enemy, inflicting heavy losses. Fighting was renewed, on Wednesday -t several points round the \pres salient. Clouds of gas forced us to evacuate the trendies .on Hill <>U, whereupon the Germans rushed the hill though temporarily checked b.v artillery. . The Germans, gettinptho. advantage of the confused lighting, followed ur> their success, and lorecd their w to our supporting line in the direction' of Zillcheke. whore they took trenches north of the hill. A British counter-attack, however, drove them off and the British captured the lost trenches' -with the exception of those o l ' the (•'•est and north-east of the hill. Received May 10, at 0.30 p.m London, May 9-"Eve-witness," continuing, said the British in another counter-attack at midnight regained the whole position north-east of Hill 60. but were again driven off with gases. He adds that the sight of comrades crawling about in and moaning for water, dying in their tracks like poisoned vermin, aroused the. troops to fury, and it. is to be hoped that the British Empire will not rest until full retribution has been exacted.

ITALY'S ATTITUDE

AUSTRIAN'S FORTIFYING THE FRONTIER.'-" Received May 1.0, at 0.5 a.m. Rome. May 8. Austrian troons are massing at the frontier. Train-loads of artillery are constantlv arriving, an'd the road's leadin" to tlie frontier are barred by tree trunks. A thousand Russian prisoners are engaged in digging trenches. Received May 1.0. at S.oO a.m llon-,. May 9. The Austro-Gerinan exodus continues wholesale, including- the Embassy staff. Students at Florence hissed the departing trains, accompanied with cries of "Down with Germany and Austria." Received May 10, at SUo a.m . Copenhagen, May ■>■ Advices from Berlin state that Italy has -summoned to the colors, all mfantrv classes from and including those of 1376. , '

Manv train loads of troops are proceeding to the north-eastern frontier. Home, May 9. The Kaiser forwarded an autograph letter to the King.

NOBLE INDICNATION.

Received May 10, at 9.40 a.in London, May »■ Lord Derby, in a letter to the.newspapers, savs'that within a few days Germauv has perpetrated two diabolical acts' only deseribable as murder. Firstlv; she' used poisonous- gases, resulting' in. scores of na'nful, lingering deaths"; and now she has sunk the Lusiiania. causing the loss of many innocent lives. Britain no longer calls on men to tight an honorable foe, but to ioin for the purpose of hunting down and crushing once, and for all a race of cold-blooded murderers. Whether the men join the regulars or Kitchener's army of Territorials is immaterial, all should he present when the day of reckoning comes and hitter revenge is taken.

BRITISH DESTROYER LOST,

MINED ON THE BELGIAN COAST. London, May 8. The destroyei- Maori, while operating on the Belgian-coast, -was mined find sunk, two miles north-west of Willingen lightship. The crew took to the boats. The Crusader went to their assistance, but the enemy's shore batteries opened fire. The Crusader was under tire for oue and a-haif hours and had to leave the boats and retire. German sources report that the Maori's crew and a boat's crew- of the Crusader, numbering seven officers and 82 men., were taken prisoner and sent to Zeebrugge. The steamer Don was torpedoed and sunk off the Northumberland coast. The crew was rescued.

THE BLOCKADE

SHIPPING CONTINUES AS USUAL

Received May 9, at 0.0 p.m. '''• London, May 8. . A submarine sunk a, trawler which escaped on Sunday, seven miles off Crudeu Bay. The crew was saved. Received May ' ] - at ij.2o p.m. London, May S. The Admiralty announce that the statement .that .:> German airship sank a. British submarine is false. On the contrary the. submarine' returned uninjured! and reports having damaged the. airship bv giuifiro. and driven her oh". London, May S. '2.35 p.m. The Admiralty reports that 1604 vessels of over 300 tons arrived, at and sailed from British ports during the week ending May sth. Five were sunk by submarines with a gross tonnage of 1.1,488 tons.' One fishing vessel was mined and 16 «unk ; or 'captured, of a gross tonnage'of 3011 tons.

MASSACRES IN ARMENIA

TURKISH ATROCITIES. Petrograd. May St. Djeinal Pacini, supported by the Kurds, is besieging Van._ The Armenian insurgents' ammunition is nearly exhausted. Many prominent Armenians have, been assassinated, and the live; of the American missionaries- and families- are endangered. There have been wholesale massacres elsewhere in Armenia.