... BEFORE THE THE DEFENDER MUCH PUBLIC YPRES ; THE MASTER-GENERAL OF THE ORDNANCE; AND THE TERROR OF THE DANUBE. Lieut-Gen Sir Herbert Plumer (Photograph No i) so much commended in Sir John French's lat sred in the Suth African WarLieutCommand K RN DSO ...

... LY NEAR YPRES : CANADIANS IN RESERVE. The first photograph show Wii bli i OE MAGNI shows a Winnipeg battalion held in reserve near the Western front ; the second a Canadian soldier in charge of a field post-office. In the new battle of Ypres, which began ...

... Pictures.] OUR madar Mir Dast, the fourth Indian V.C., showed conspicuous bravery during an attack on German positions north of Ypres, remained behind when a gas attack compelled a retirement, and brought in many wounded. Corporal Cosgrove led his section with ...

... the church called St Ma —[Photo, by Newspaper Illustrations.] At tiie «i«™» of writing, details of the destruction caused in Yprès by the German bombardment are scanty. Nothing has been said so far of serious damage to the famous Cloth Hall and other public ...

... SCENES OF DEVASTATION: IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD The upper illustration showht if th flihih FLEURBAIX THE REMAINS OF THE WALLS OF YPRES CLOTH HALL. shows what now remains of the once flourishing Northern France village of F'eurba'x one of the unfortunate places ...

... sunrise, that the Prussian Guards made their grand attack on the British trenches near Ypres. The Guards, prisoners related, had been specially ser.t for to take Ypres, because all attacks of the Line had failed. The Germans came on in masses, facing with ...

... JVIeesines Ridge Victory «oí y —[Official Photo.) NO LONGER NECESSARY : THE GREAT SANDBAG-PROTECTED SHELTERS AND FORTIFICA'^ « THE YPRES SUPPORT-LINE POSITION NEAR KEMMEL HILL AND VILLAGE. The above photograph shows one of the immediate results of General Plumer's ...

... the main end. The scene of the attack was the famous Ypres salient, and the line extended from the valley of the Lys, northward across the reverse slopes of the Messines-Wytschaete ridge and around Ypres to the Yser Canal. The most northerly flank of the ...

... CANAL A FEW MILES NORTH OF YPRES: FRENCH ZOUAVES AND BELGIAN CAR Th | rbineer cyclists driving the germans across the canal at lizerne.- from the drawing by alfred bastien. The village of Lizerne, a few miles north of Ypres, has changed hands more than ...

... ON THE WESTERN FRONT : THE RUINS OF THE CLOTH HALL AT YPRES. Australian Officiai photograph. ...

... WITH THE WATER NEARLY DRAINED OFF : A LOCK ON THE YPRES CANAL. • Photograph ly Canadian War Records. • • • ...

... ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : A TRUCK OF AMMUNITION FOR THE GUNS NEAR YPRES. British Official Photograph. ...