The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-05-26
BATTLE
OF ARTILLERY
IN HISTORY Of
THE WORLD
English War Observer Writes
of the Terrible Battle Be-
fore Ypres in Which Ger
mans Won an Advance.

lAtaeetatfd fFeaa CofreapondenteI
London, May it.-This IL the
greatest artillery battle In the hlstary
OF the world; the expenditure Of am.
munitiOn is fabulous" writes an OBJ
server from behind the British lines
az Ypres. describing the fighting OF
April 20 and 20. which resulted In
considerable gains for the Germans.
After describing the almost contin.
uous cannOnading that had been
going on for two days. with literally
thousands OF guns In almost contin-
ual action. the observer suggests that
the Intensity of the firing may be
judged by the fac that at one small
bridge across the User twenty Ger
man guns fought eighteen English
and French guns all night. until IL
nally the German guns were silcnced.
The French Eos" he notes, were
hred 30 rapidly that they sounded
like an endless roll OF thunder null
tiplled by a thousand"
Touching briefly on the Canadians
part In the battle. he says: 'One Of
the most notable incidents Of the
battle WAS the work done By the Ca
madam supply column. Not a cart
ridge or shell vas a second late In
reaching the man behind the gun.
and when the black fumes blew
across a section Of supply men and
they fell. others rushed In and kept
the lighting line %replenished until the
wind blew the fumes away.
During the afternoon two aero
planes-supposed to be British
marked and shaped exactly as .hc
British aircraft are. flew over the
German lines, and II wal noticed that
the German shells played an about
them without effect. Then they
would Fly over the British lines and
hack again, but the German shells
always fell far hort OF bringing them
down. ON their third visit the ca
madam field battery let them have
several shots. One n%eroplane. badly
damaged, volplaned down into the
German lines. and the other fled out
Of sight behihd the German ,rench-
es."
Describing the artillery lighting.
the writer says: AS far as our glasses
could carry We could see the white
bursts of shrapnel. the black bursts
OF the German giant guns or the
feathery floating clouds Of anti-air-
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yerberating dome OF the sky. where
both German and English aerOplanes
scared. The old theory that shooting
causes rain was disproved, for the
sun shone brightly over the indie
scribable scene, The wind was no
strong that the ~aeroplanes facing Il
made no Roadway. ana standing into
the wind In one place like kites. the
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AIRY as the top Of the Eiffel tower.
directing presumably tho British gun
IRE.
From behind our hill two British
monoplanes soared no low over us
that we could see their guns. they
climbed into the sky to drive away
q Taube biplane which was flying
over the hill sidewise In the heavy
wind. The Taube tool to flight at "A
height 50 great that II looked like a
dot In the sky, even with our glasses
turned on II. soon the white pufts
Of the German anti-aircran runs and
the muddier white pums of the Brit
ish sky guns punctured the sky. above
and below the glittering dots which
weor the aeroplanes cleaning In the
sunlight.
Below our hill were Belgian peas
ants blowing. Further behind them,
In a meadow, we could see men play
ing football discovered later that
some of the men IN the match were
To march five miles tonight and enter
the trenches In the maelstrom OF fire
which we were beholdinE. I spoke to
one of these men who told me that
he was m of those who had been
the first TO he sen; 10 the wal last
August, The umpire impaticntlS
called time while ! talked To the
goalkeCper.
Tonight the glare Of the battle IL
Eliminates the sky Of Belgium Tor
many miles. The tower OF the cloth
Hall at Ypres and two church steeples
were visible In the rRys OF the even
ing sunset, but many fires we're burn-
ing In the town and nay glimpse Of
the ruins of the cloth Han tower
may have been my last, for the GER
man shells weer falllng about II in
cpssautiN,'