Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-17
Form VeritabIe CobbIe to
West of NelIve ChapeIle.
Now Held by British.
BODIES STILL LIE THICK
Between FOES LINES
Neither Enemy Dares to Attempt
Removal of Corpses-Trench
Life Wearies Men.

NFtNE CHAPEI4LE. France. April
1.-THE ground to the west of this
now shattered town of Neuve Chapelie.
| from which the British drove the Ger
mans in the middle of March with such
terrible loss of life for both sides, IS
literally cohbled with German skulls.
The dead lie buried in shallow graves
everywhere. and the vicinity is strewn
with wreckase and debris
The British have made it as tidy as
they can. but beneath many of the
trenches and dugoUts six inches of
baEonet viii meet the resistance of
cloth and human flesh, while in the mo
mar s land. between the new British
line and the German trenches TO the
east bodies still lie thick
Cannot Remove Corpses.
Neither the Germans nor the British
dare attempt to remove the corpses,
alter the relative positions of the OPP
alter the relative position of the op-
posing lines they are likely still to
, be there when summer comes Many
Of the trenches and dugouts where the
men live unwillingly harbor the bodies
OF thousands of men which were COW
cred with earth after the British rush.
Many have been buried by both the
Germans and the British, and white
tween the lines
SO quickly did the British break
through the German line that full de-
tails of the action are only now be-
participated.
Sudden Advance Dazes Men.
The suddenness ~ Yhe advance was
such that many of the men were so
dazed that all they knew was that
they got through. In fact, the British
staff officers laughingly assert that it
was too quick for the best results. the
German line giving way so suddenly
that the British found themselves like
a man who hits his opponent with
all his might and encounters but slight
resistance and is thereby thrown off
his balance.
IF We had had chance for it that
day ] believe we could have taken
Aubers also. and perhaps Lille" said
one officer with a smile. "At any rate.
we gave the Germans their worst
drubbing OF the war, and the effect all
along our front has been incalcuable.
Every man i'll the British army be-
German line if we wanted to, and that
Is mighty comfortable feeling
Weary of Trench Warfare.
The average soldier is, of course,
weary of trench warfare and he will
be glad when it is all over, but Nueve
Chapelle has acted like a tonic on the
British forces from Ypres to La Bassee.
The correspondent was entertained on
the British front by an officer in his
dugout Men from the trenches. obliv-
ious of the shells swishing overhead,
streamed out, eager to gather souve-
Mrs and to take part in entertaining
the visitors. They swarmed about the
entrance to the dugout until the officer,
in a tone of fatherly annoyance. cried
out: "Get down there. you chaps, or
you will have the Germans tossing
shell among u.s..
Cartridges Are Changed.
private exhibited a German cartridge
from which the bullet had been with
drawn and then reinserted with the
square end out. He said they had
found quantities of cartridges SO treat
ed, and that they made bad wounds.
Another man made reference to the
story that the Germans were using
shells of American manufa cture, pro-
iectiles marked as having been manu-
featured in the United States having
been found
While the party OF visitors sat view
ing the ruins of Neuve Chapelle and
tracing the line of the old German
trenches. which easily could be distin-
guished. due to the fact that the Ger
mans used blue sand bags, German
shell struck and exploded not far to
the right. The group ducked. but no
one moved otherwise. This shell wa ;