British score

Notable advance in France

Germans heavily defeated

Troops for the Dardanelles

The Germans have ceased to be artistic in their lying. Their efforts now are of the ‘common of garden variety’ calculated to deceive no one but themselves.

We are told for example that the bombardment of the Dardanelles has had little or no result but that several ships of the allied forces have been damaged, especially the Queen Elizabeth.

On land they have the effrontery to claim that two weak Rhine divisions with a few battalions of Guards and some other detachments utterly devastated six whole French army corps with so much artillery that it fired 190,000 shells in one day.

This stupid invention relates to the Champagne area and the Telegraph suggests that the German staff have been brought under the influence of the somewhat exciting wine to which the district gives its name.

No wonder the newspapers of neutral countries are beginning to betray amusement.

An important success to the British arms is reported in last night’s official message from Paris. The village of Neuve Chappelle has been captured and further progress has been made from this point both to the northern east and to the south west.

A thousand prisoners have been taken including several officers and severe losses were inflicted on the enemy.

It is to be hoped that a full and detailed account of the battle will be issue for publication. A useful piece of work like this is worth more than two or three miserable paragraphs which actually have the effect of minimising the importance The achievement was evidently of a brilliant order and it is not unlikely that our casualty list is also a heavy one.

In Champagne, the French appear to be doing exceedingly well and despite violent counter attacks the enemy has not been able to gain an inch of ground and his efforts have been fearfully expensive.

The process of smashing the pirates continues. Another submarine has been sunk by one of our destroyers and it is to be hoped that the rescued crews will be brought to trial as common malefactors.

The sinking without warning of unarmed merchantmen is piracy and murder and there is no reason to suppose that Germany’s old ally has suspended the operation of the Ten Commandments for the benefit of the Kaisers army and navy.

From the eastern front we learn that despite their serious defeat at Prezanyez the Germans have begun a fresh offensive along the River Orjec and for this purpose they have moved great numbers of forces from central Germany.

The Austrians are also displaying fresh activity in the western Carpathains. They delivered an attack along the whole front but were rejected with heavy fire.