Volume 17 , Issue 12

1915 - Ypres Battle Continues With Germans On Defensive

One hundred years ago today, 28 April 1915, Wednesday, The Daily Ardmoreite had the following front page headlines: "Ypres Battle Continues, With Germans On Defensive." Allies were attacking teutons in great for e, and both sides were making official claims of heavy losses among the enemy.

London, April 28 (1915) -- The Ypres battle continues with the Germans apparently on the defensive, and the allies at tacking in great force. Both sides claim officially that the enemy's loss of life was frightfully heavy.

The German official version says the English attempted to recapture their lost territory in Flanders, but failed completely. One British attack broke down completely within less than two hundred yards of the Germans' new positions. Later in the day, another British charge failed with heavy losses, say the Germans.

The French announced continued progress against the Germans, north of the Ypres, where machine guns, bomb throwers and several hundred prisoners were captured. At a single point near the User canal, the French claimed they counted six hundred dead Germans.
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