The Ely miner., 1915-04-30
TERRIFIC CONFLICT
RACES IN FLANDERS
GERMAN ATTACK UPON ALLIES
CONTINUES WITH UNpiMiN-
iSHED FURY.
AIM AT DUNKIRK AND CALAIS
Teutons Arc Once Again Trying tc
Break Through to French Coast
Towns Is ReIief-AIIies
Regain Canal Banks.

Berlin, April 27.-ln the Official
statement just given out il was an.
nounced that more than 1000 Cana.
dians had been captured in the fight.
ing around Ypres, Belgium. The state,
ment says:
The Germans hold Lizerns, on the
west bank of the canal, which the
french pretend to have conquered. Al
so on the east of the canal the CON
quered terrain remains in the posses
sion of the Germans.
Northwest of Zonnebake the Ger.
man attacks continue. More than
1,0OO Canadians were taken prisoners
The total number of prisoners rose tc
5,ooo."
London, April 2S.-The tremendous
battle begun by the German attack
upon the Allied arc-like front around
Ypres in the plains of Flanders. con-
tinues with undiminished fury and
England, like the rest of Europe, is
awaiting the outcome with undis-
guised anxiety. Even the news that
the Allied fleet and army have com
menced an attack on the Dardanelies
and that troops are advancing against
the Turkish entrenchment, which
few days ago would have aroused i'm
mense enthusiasm, has received only
passing attention in the face of the
stakes that are in the balance in the
battle which is being fought beyond
the English channel
Germans Aim at Dunkirk.
While the majority of those capable
OF forming an opinion believe that
the Germans, by the stroke they have
delivered against the British. French
and Belgians are once again aiming
at Dunkirk and Calais, there are others
who believe that it is only feint in
force to draw the Allies reserves
while preparations are being made for
an attack at some other point in the
long line.
Whatever are the intentions of the
Germans, they certainly made a sue
cessful coup which, while it did not
break, did dent the Allies line The
Canadians, who were holding the Brit
fsh portion of the line, were the first
to recover themselves and in coun.
ter-attack, the praises of which are
ringing throughout the empire, recap
tured the ground they had been com
PEELED to give up and since then with
their comrades have successfully with.
stood the German assaults.
Allies Regain Canal Banks.
The French and Belgians, who re-
eeived the blast in fuller force and
were driven back across the canal be-
tween Boesinghe and Steenstraate
were not much slower in recovering
and according to the French official re
ports succeeded in regaining posses.
sion of the canal banks and much OF
the surrendered territory to the east.
There is no inclination here, how.
sver, to belittle the initial successes of
he German sweep and the work that
s before the Allied armies before the
situation can be fully restored.
A writer in the Pall-Mall Gazette de
'cribes 1t as "a mastery tactical
and declares that ''if
he Germans have waited long to take
heir revenge for Neuve Chapelle, they
lave taken it now.''
BY getting across the canal. il is
'ointed out that the Germans gained
or the moment command of new roads
md if they had not been driven back
would have forced readjustment of
he whole Allied line in the region of
pres.