Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-04-26
fpTes is Being Subjected to
Almost Continuous Bonn
bardment by Germans.
ARE USING 17-INcH GUNS
lncendiary Shells Have Fired
All Belgian Farms and VII
lagos on 20-MiIe Front.
CANADIANS PROVE HEROES
British AeropIanes Recosme;;t-
erIng Over the Enemy's Po-
sition as eyes of Army.
tBy VIM. Sheppard, Copyrighted.
1915, by the U. P. Copyright
in Great Britain.

AT the Headquarters of the Brit
lsh over Sea Army, Northern
sunday, April 25. via London, Aprif
zo:-Ihe Germans are now benz
pard1ng Ypres with seventeen-Ineh
guns. The roar of these great pieces
on artillery, latest products OF the
hdupp factories, can be heard thirty
miles. German incendiaFy shells
have fired all of the Belgian farms
and villages along front of twenty
miles. Tonight the sky is illnmf-
mated with the glare from the blax-
ing homes and barns.
The high northerly winds which
for three days have been blowing
from German lines across the Anglo
french-Belgian trenches, car
before them the Supplying gases.
have now died down. There il com
plete calm tonight and the temper or
the allied troops over what they
claim the most fagranf breach OF the
rule of civilized warfare BIZ the ger-ss
mans, is most bitter. From the high
est officers down TO the Iagt private
the most bitter incentive is bein
used against the Germans.
believe now that the GerA
actually did massacre the Belgi1
people, snapped a Canadian asfaes
fol nsaGs.4 rank whom saw IN fsss1
hospital and i1IIu 10 If:i,ssys2g froIAN!
the effects of the gas. w.. 60. n zfisxl
canadians, who are III the k0spitsaI
are suffering from gas fumes. hi
entire Canadian contingent was eri1
gagged and all are the recipients ot
unstinted praise from General
French and staff Tor the part they
played in the battle
The further they come the harder
they'll get whipped
!, The above phrase, the sharp com
ment of Field Marshal Sir Iehn
French, commander in chief OF Brit
| ish forces, when appraised that the
Germans had hacked their way
! Through to the Ypres canal, is today
| the slogan of the entire British army.
! 1t expresses the supreme confidence
| of the entire force, regulars and soI-
unteers. and is being followed up by
an onslaught all along the line TO
| try and recover the lost ground that
for derceness has never been eqnaled
in any previous war The lighting
continues of the most intensity and
reinforcements are being thrown into
the battle line at every point where
reports of airmen indicate the Ger
mans have massed for renewed as
saults.
Standing on a hill five miles from
Ypres 1 saw reflected along a fifteen
mile panorama filed with smoke the
gigantic opposition which General
Freneh's army is making against the
weight of the reinforced German
machine. Through the smoke and
tumult Of the horizon dotted with
white clouds from bursting shrapBe1
the British still hold their positions
in the vicinity OF hill No. so. Over
the hill itself a dense smoke cloud
hangs, placed there by the enormous
shells of the German guns. which
constantly burst over every portion
Of the British position.
Six miles northeast OF Ypres. the
positions where the Canadians are
gallantly holding their new positions.
the lines can Just be distinguished
through the whitish smoke. Ypres
is being subjected to an almost con-
tinuous bombardment from German
heavy artillery and has been set on
fire in many places. The great tower
of the beautiful cloth hill glisteRed
In the sunlight above the snloE.-u
which filed the city offering a g1e5s
target to the hostile guns. Smoke
from six burning Belgian villages Is
easily discernable on the horizoa
while above it can be picked up the
British aeroplanes accommodating
the enemy's positions and watching
as the "eyes of the army for new
massing of troops that forecast an
other attempted advance.