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THE SECOND FIGHT FOR YPRES..

April 27-May 13.

By John Buchan,

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The heroin stary of the Serval Batths of Ypore that agred serons the shail swept washes of Flanders through three whole weeks is told balow in graphle detail by Mr, Jubia -uchen, whose articles from the front have already appeared in The Times.

For Perkempalle till its left mosted on the wood past of St. Juliku" between the Langustele and Peleapelle roach, Be yound it there was still a gap utal this Hermana ware working round is dunk. The whole, one of the Cundina Bri- (gaults was in' reservis, but it was itapes. † sible to bring it up at'a moment's notice. The battalions in the Brigady reserva of the Canadian line were brought for

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A battery of 4.7 gues, lent by the d Loudon Division to support the French. was in the wied cast of Sr. Julign, That wood has no nate, but it deserves to be christened by the name of the troops

who died in it. For through it the 10th Battalion under Colonel folyo wad the 16th under t'olonak Leckie charge st midnight and won the marthom fringe. They recaptured the gums, but could not bring them away: bus thay destroyed parts of them before they fell again inte German hands, when the line was forced back by artillery firs. Another counter-

The grim struggle of British Link and Territorial regiments against gas attacks and terrifs bumbardaments; the insuortal stand of the Canadians; the General Brokers. brittinut charges of dismounted cavalrymen, win took the place of infantry; the countless deeds o; individual valour, make up a story that will live always in our military history side by side with that of the First Battle of Ypeus, the greatest struggle of the second phase of the war in the West. The Tiate."

The first atter of Ypra-still the greatest and most critical straggle of the Western was-began on October 20 and eaded with the repulse of the Prus. xian Gunal on November 11. The battle front stretched from Bixschoots in the north to Armentieres in the south over a broad salient whose first aper. was Tegelnere and send theluvelt. In it we opposed" numbers which were never mero than 150,000 to an enemy whose strength was at least half a million.attack was attempted to ease the strain. During the worst part of the fighting we had three infantry divisions and some We had to face not cavalry to teet, hve army corps, three of the first line. only a perpetual banbardament by superior artillery, but a succession of attacks ly unaward infantry deliverni with desperate resolution. The German aim was the rand to Calais; their assault was a deliberate and sustained offensive com

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A wildor battle has rarely been wit nessed than the struggle of that April The second battle of Ypres belongs to ↑ Niventer & a different category, I was contined to Apr 17 we exploded suven mines on the right. The British reserves at Ypres. the norther segment of the salient, bu- bill. which played havoc with the de-shelled out of the neighbourhood of the ween the Ypres Canal and the Menia Jener, blowing up a trench line and 150 town, marelied to the sound of the firing, mane. We won the top, catrenched our with the strange sickly odor of the gas Probably the fieraus st mizharakter vffasive purpose at the start. selý in, the shell craters and brought blowing dewn upon them. All along our The lottle Segan with a lost comater up machine-guas. Next day, Sunday, at front the cannonade was severe, while attuck in retum for our efforts'nt mill 2020 the Germans made a counter-attack the Canadian loft, bent bich, was string nd why this uftack prospered in mass formation, which resplted in a gling to entrench itself under cover of In some cases bey was pushed beyond its original siz A desperate struggle at elous quarters. Our comter-attacks, proot is dant-there was no gnat massingtonchinegara mowed down the enemy, found French reserve trenches to becupy. of troups as in the antenn battle. Local but is renched 'our trenches, and there bus are often they had to dig then- some Berve hand-to-hand "fighting, selves in where they were allowed. The reserves were brought up. but the Ger- was mat line was not thinned elsewhere. But Repeatedly during the day the attacks right of the German assault was beyond in two respects the battles are, akin. were renowed, but all were driven back. the canal in several places, and bearing long and by the evening we had expelled the hard on the French remnants on the The secul lasted almost exactly as as the first-from Thursday, April to my from the stapes of the hill with rastern bank. To their eternal honour! Thursday, May 1, when it shekened the bayonet. In this struggle we lost the left Canadian Brigade did not break. owing to the British thrust from Fosty, heavily, but the Germans lost more, and Overwhelmed with superior numbers of rt. Like the first, too, it was fought all the glacis was littered with their dead, men and guns and sink to death wand the aminst heavy odds, A crushing artillery For the next three days there was n poisoned fumes, they did all that men The 15th prepundemance and the use of poison gas respite. The position was vital to thecould do to stem the side. were more demily assets than any weight ency he would keep his Hollebake Battalion (18th Highlanders), who bore of numbers. For days our fate hung in ground, and the 19th Saxons were hurled the brunt of the gas, recovered themselves the balance, dispositions became involved against it with the support of artillery after the first retreat you regained ther

The 18th Battalion" (Royal) in the fog of war, and it becamp a sol, and sphyxiating bombs. The hill form position. diers battle. like Malpinquet and Al- ed a sulient, and we were exposed to fire Highlandersi did not give ground at all. buera, whats reles and text-books were from three sides). On the 19th and 20th Major Norswarthy, though badly wound. 696 forgotten, and we won by the dogged the terrific caznenade continued. On the rallied his men til be got his death-

fighting quality of our men.

evening of the latter day about 6.30 there wound. Captain McCuaig, who had rel was another infantry attack which lasted ceived a crippling wound, insisted that he

And all the while there i for an hour and a half, while all one should be left behind, so spot to en- night parties with haml-grenades workel tumbor bis men. their ny to our trenches, On was the yawning roit, on our luft which Wednesday morning, the 21st, the enemy gave the enemy a clear way to Ypres bad established hituself at one point on Strangely enough they did not push their the slopes, af the north-cast edge, but advantage. As in theirst battle of Ypres munications castward radiata like spokes. in the afternoon we dislodged him. All they broke our line bat could do nothing

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Dad important road crosses the canal at Streustenate, but all the main routes run through Ypres to Pilkem, to Lange. us to Porleapelle, to Zennebeko, to as were in close range. Against an Gheuvelt and Monin, besides the rail. are 250 yards long by 200 deep tons of

metal were flung, and for four and a-balfi way to Roulers. Virtually all the mp days the defenders lived through a verit. plies and reserves for: the troops holding the salient must go through the neck at ble bell. But on Thursday, the 22nd, the hill was still ours, and there came the bottle at Ypres. Now, carly in

a sadden all in the attack-another such Nevender the Germans wica gun positions ut the southern re-entrant which tabled lungemus Toll as that which on October them to shell the town, and a bombard. had preceded the launching of the

W:5 continued intermittently.. Manali on Tuesday, the 20th, the Kussian destroyer of Danzig in the action Upper Levis LARGE AIRY througiat. the winter. A serious can hombardment of Ypres had begun. Sud. of July 2 last in the fourteenth subranrine from 1st July. Use of tennis court. nonude would grave interfere with our romnonications, and we held the salient derly into the streets of the little city, of which evidence of loss is extent. The filled with their normal denizens, there sulanarine U 30, su off the mouth of

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with this menace perpetually before us feil the great 12cm. (1in.) shells. F. the Ems, is not included in that number. We could assume that a heavy shelung teen children were killed at play, and She is said to have been raised, nad it! of Ypres would be a preliminary to any number of civilians perished in the debria, is reported that the crew, with the ex-|·

sion of thirty-six hours. Another Ger From the middle of November to the The destruction of Ypres served no mili- ception of one man, survived a sučmar. end of January the salient was held by tary object in itself. It could only be a

means to the blocking of the routes man submarine was struck by shells dia the Fernch. On February 1 part of the through which we supplied our lines on charged by the French Bernd Light Freuch were withdrawn, and General Bulins Division was brought north to the salient. It could not be aimed at Squadron in the Charnel and she ray replace them. By April 20 the Allied Hill 60, where our communications bad here to lost. The same French sque

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manirre. The particular objees with Hot and Cold Water, Electric light. hargers, and the right of the 10th Corps The instant result was a four-mile which Germany sent so powerful a aqua class modern appointments throughout, imm Alsace, the heroes of Zaben. Other breach in the Allied lins. What was left ron to wes is still obscure. Whatever including water carriage system, detachments appeared disring the battle of the French were back ou the canal it was, the expedition failed to achieve From Bowsinghe to Steenetrate, whers, it: Had the batticship squadron pro including a battalier of marinesie

they were being pushed across, by the ended instead of retreating, it might To understand the significance of the German attack, and between them and have engaged the Fussian cruiser with -vents which began on April 23 it is the left brigades of the Canadians were superior for It seems, however, that necessary to go bhele to what happene our miles of undefended country the weather was thick; always a paulys an the 17th. The operations at Hill go Through this gap the Germans were pouring condition. Probably the purpose of were not strictly a part of the Ypres, prounded by the fumes of the gas, basing a strong squadron of battleships, battle, but they xero a link in the chain, nd, supported by heavy artillery fire. cruisery, and torpedo-craft upon Danzig of cases. Hill 60 is only a hill to the The Canadians had suffered from the is to hold in check any Run ese of fafti, ing more than an was, but to a less extent than the French, mont upon the dennen littoral. Deuzig. th hear from the cutting of the Fires With his flank in the air there was on lying midway between Kiel Bay and the Lille rallway. Its advantage is that it course belurs the G.0, of the left Cane Gulf of Foland, is well pincod for anch rises a position from which the whole dla Brigade but bo duce bis lait. A a inctical design. Thotarial cest Germany front to the neighbourhood of tempus were inade to rally the fleeing of occupying Dunelg, so far as the Allies Tollebore Chateau Can be commanded. Turcor, and Captain Guy Drummond, Mat concerned, is definitely to detach It just west of the hamlet of war the Toys Highlanders, fell from shall curtain importert units from the daten, where the Household Brigade de fire is this lasi Under the pressure of Mah Fleet and to keep them employe SKE TRAJTANDE MERKED WORD "THERAPICE? DON their decisive charge on the night of attack by four divisions the laft Be The Hussan Baltle Fleet Is this doing

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