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... Plumer won in the South African War, where he operated successfully in the north, has been enhanced at the second battle of Ypres. In his recent despatch recording the details of that giant struggle, Sir John French, de¬ scribing the occupation of a new ...
... particular activity. Certainly there has been fight¬ ing in the Arras-Lens area ; there has also been some fight¬ ing near Ypres ; but apart from these points very little has come to hand. This is a state of things worth noting. It seems to me that it ...
... bullet shot the intrepid Frenchman dead. His machine feu within the French lines in Alsace. — [Photo, avenues of Arras and Ypres ; from Dankl's first movement towards Lublin, to the many attacks on Warsaw in the winter and spring of 1914-15 ; from the ...
... ALLIED LINE NEAR VPPFC A nlïnm J'™ f. m°mÇm dUrmS ,hc defra ...
... enemy attempted no fresh counter-attack. Uur line was further improved near the Ypres-Staden railwav M . K,ov1 ^lere was only a hostile cannonade east and north-east of Ypres. An enemy concentration near Paschendaele was detected, and came to grief under ...
... dominates the whole of the Ypres area. If we can make this position at all amenable to our purpose, we probably have the means of breaking the long-attacked Menin line of our enemy. The attack of the Germans to the north-east of Ypres came sur¬ prisingly, and ...
... TERRITORIALS NEAR THE WIELTJE-GRAVENSTAFEL ROAD.—[OfficiaI .¡.olograph.] [OfficiaI WAITING TO ATTACK ON THE NORTH OF THE YPRES-MENIN ROAD : SCOTTISH TROOPS.—[British Official.] —[British The earlier fighting of the week on the British front was around ...
... the results of that quick and clean day's work, which secured substantial progress in the reconquest of the ridges eastof Ypres. The affair was one of the most satis¬ factory fights oi the whole war. It was clear-cut and comprehensive in its scheme, which ...
... FRENCH VICTORY—GERMANS ATTACK ITALY. OCTOBER 31 stands out as the third anniversary of the very momentous first battle of Ypres. On that day in 1914, between the hours of two and three in the afternoon, the fate of the British Empire was at stake, for ...
... guns were busy around Ypr'es, Neuve Chapelle, and Lens ; and patrols went out nearly every day, bombing trenches and bringing back a few prisoners. The enemy attempted raids on the Cambrai front on Jan. 20, and a point east of Ypres on Jan 22, but these ...
... WESTERN FRONT.—[Çamdwn War Records.] —[Çamdwn Bullecourt and the Scarpe, and, to a less degree, north of Lens and north-east of Ypres. The day following, à post was raided north-west of St. Quentin. Next day, under cover of his trenchmortar fire, the enemy ...
... ; and during the day the enemy's guns were busy in the St. Quentin, Lens, and Armentières sectors, and also north-east of Ypres. The British artillery was not reported active. On the 18th a post in the Arras region was unsuccessfully raided by the enemy ...