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THE BATTLE OF ST.
ELOI
·FURIOUS CONFLICT.
Hard to Hand Fight at Street-
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(From "The Daily Telegraph.")
TOBACCO
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HRANI GERALIN LÖSSES.
Prisoners captured during this fighting
all that the German losses had been
MONDAY, APRIL 26 1915.
prompt the qusition of what advantage or disadvantage to either sido Ca bo advances and retheraanta-which-in-my- other flold campaign would have been consklered too trivial fog, revogti..
KYYECT OF MIND, sercussis, The answer is tavodold. Ta the first placo, a success, especially that of an i paffuznivo oë which same definita (point)]] is position is gained, even though the Talvinen siistered bà à sanall, and, Es así elating to the ment of the attacks jus it is depressing to that of the shaden. ders, for it is the feeling of having benteu the enemy that counts, and, uni the ex- tent of ground wan. As has Issen statesl atrendy, the effect of tha viatory, at Nonse t'hapelle has in this way been runark- able. I has caused troops which were by no means depressed before to become cuted, and has filled theat with con- fidence, in spite of undoubtedly heary
his fact which the enemy may ap| preciate when next they meet....
The effect of the recent fighững cà
the Germans in is not possible to gauge," But, though they are stubborn folk, not easily downcart, the operations, of theị last few days cannot have been enentizag- ing.
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In the second place, in regard to the actual extent of ground won or lost, us has been frequently pointed cat, the forin of wartaro into which the operations have developed approximates to that of a salso in which very much of the fighting is at close range, and the possession of a yard of ground counts, because it may enable the possessor to act against some other poins with greater offret than he could| otherwise have done.
It must also be borne in mind that the success of an action, specially at pro- sent, must be judged not only by its strategical or tactical results, but by the material damage done by killing or put-
nemy.
-- ~~DUPF OF · ·OUR ANNETY-
dry great, the supports especially auferting out of action large numbers of the ing severely im our shell fire, while our bombardment during the previous đaja had dóm much damage to their trenches.
It is for this reason that the extent
One
The attack was carried out by infan.of the ground grined cannot do taken aa try, followed thosely by pioneers, whose criterion of the result attained. mission it war to put the position in be of far greater value to the side making {way in which quits n slight advanse may
Yesterday evening (March 21 the tale of defense so soon, is the infantry it this wenkd· appear "Iront the map is
had seized it.
Wednesday and Thursday, the 17th fores, the enemy in order to recapture thas is may, from, its tactical situation,
18th instant of the movements of the
and 18th, pasd quietly, except for
what is lost to geunter-attack under ad- heavy shelling & various points, operas conditions, which will cause him cially in the neighbourhood of Neuvo
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yo-witness prevent, with General Head- quarters, which continues and supple ments the narrative published on the chapelle On the morning of the 17th far greater losses than those suffered by | tha original attackers. To check that British Fores and the Fresch Arrier inom 200 Gemans tock advantage of
the misty weather to try to reach their has been in any previous campaign, for Labjent is perhapa mera important then it inmediate" touch with it
own tranches by advancing to the the struggle between the nations has pow March 19.
open near Le Touquet. They were seen.come one of exhaustion, and succus Since the action at St. Eloi cr the heater and in was opened on them intour that wide which can put 1th and 15th there has been no fight-wing many to fall. ing on our front. Thas action has been
of action the greater number of its In spite of the generally monotonous
opponenta. somewhat eclipsed by the story of Neure character of the present stage of the Chapelle, bub, although it was for thers have been some dramatic France now is to fight, and to us or The duty before the British Army da parative unimportance, since it left the to: 5
Ono wch moment immediately knock oub" us many Germans as po date. ituation very much as it had bean be preceded the sack on Neuve Chapelle bio quickly as possible, and with QUBSCRIBERS to the above OAN tore, it gave equal proofs of the fighties for the 10th, then our infantry, titing the least loss to itself. The duty before
are hereby notified that the integralites of the British soldier. irtilment the mouth of April amorantirg
to assault, wen watching tho bombard- Dollars Oca Hundred and Trenty The village of St. Eloi lies at the june-ment. They would see our shells burst. the British nation is by every means in hand ($12,000) ban been duly recaived tion of two main roads, one the reading in the thick veil of smoke and duit power to back up and help its soldiers by the Undersigned and brought to Tran Trom Ypres to Armentiers, the other which hung our the German trenches, to do this. Service Acenant.
Just as there is no doubt that tho line rans close round the village on the artillery fire grew hotter and hotter, and has been the value of preparation, there JAPANESE MAKERS,
standing lesson of this war, as of all wars, rut, and on the south side of its bends the tino grew nearer for them to rush al no doubt that the direction in way westward, that the enemy may forward, their excitement rose to fever which preparation has chiefly affected. be said roughly to face the village on two pitch. In our places they were scen the operations hus lain in the possession rides. To the south-east there is a to jump up on the parapets brandishing of gun ard numunition-two things 374 | large mound, or tumulus. :
their rifles towards the Germans, and which cannot be quickly improvised. In- On the evening of Sunday, the 14th, shouting remake which were drowned seal, it can be said that nowadays pro- | affer an extremely heavy artillery fire in the rear of the gun. When the usÜ directed against our treaches along the actually made our losses were tories more than on that of the big vidence lies on the side of the “big bat- eastern and south-western scutors, the trifing. It was only in the subsequent battalions termars erdavoured to rush or in aivanco that the heavy casualtic occur This altampt succeceded. far as theæd.:
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effect of modern guns and to the mechani- I is noteworthy that the one cal traction which enables them and the jabsolurdly untenable. To the cast of the
wounded hal to thank our men for amannsition for them to be brought lato, village, however, our infantry maden must determined stand. Their firo was many acts of kindness even in the the fold. It has been provel gain and :sterty and well-directed that theme of the assault. In one case again and the fight at Neuve Chapello hac esses among the availants were some of ur xers, finding a wounded only served to enforce the lesson, that hie, our men slicking to their posts win offer who had had his arm the strongest entrenched positions can blown of by shell, rarried him to be carried with less laws to the attackers tha last-in fact, till they were over-
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Of the gallantry of regimental officers sufficiently prepared by artillery; and, tirughout the fighting it is unnecessy further, that under such conditions any The Germans then rushed the sup-to park. The casualty lista tell the counterattack made by the defenders to port- trenches and also the mound, which tale. The heavy toll among them was regain what is lost is alment bound to they had blown up by mine, and fol-largely due to the fact thas in advancing fail, with immenso loss to those attempt. lowing up their success penetrated info over the intricate country intersected with the village itself. They wern, however, hedges and ditches the platoon comuns and unlimited ammunition.
ing it. But to do this demands many not allowed to remain long in undisputed munders had is go forward to recon- prversion of it. Our first counter-attackingit the ground and discover the best between entire nations, in which a' the This war is a life and death, struggin took plate at 2.30 am. on the Lith, not way to circumtert or cross these obre wurces of every combatant re-or was only partly cuessful, the enemy starles without getting their men crowded should be mobilised to our end. still retaining pocasión of St. Eli gether in a places, such as gepa only will victory depend- for ens and some breast-works and trenches,
in helgero and, bridges. This natur-interia!" Hy other effort. mado nearly tally entailed posuze,
The argely
Concestier KINGSCLERE HOTEL Hours later we succeeded in driving him achieved and the extendicary spirit the man behind the gun in the field; it on the action of artillery, or on CLEARANCE SALEetely out of the village, shown by the tropa are the best proots will depus equally on the provision sui
capturing all the trenches which had of the qualitis displayed by their internaes of the artillery and its em-] Lot fra dentroyed. The mound, how leadera. ever, remained in the handia of the The accounts of much of the Sghting action of the manufacturer and the man munition; in other words, upon the Gerais, thogh it has been subjected that has takes place in the Western in the workshop at home. We are" ali too heavy's Bre that little ne can be these of operations during the winter. fighting the same battle. made of St.
dealing as they have with infnitesimali For every failure to parform their shies The fighting in St. Eloi itself was, aguina or loses of ground, naturally or the emumon task on the part of the idual in such cases, of the ferrent des eription. On gaining the place the Ger 322.mans had creted barricades across the streets defended by machine guns, azal thea had to to formed, one by one. que un coming on time after timar- gardless of their losses until the villag had been cleared of the energy,
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