Show OBSERVER WRITES ABOUT BATTLE OF YPRES Artillery Fight Is Characterized Characterized Charac Charac- teriz d as One of the Worlds World's Greatest LONDON May lay 22 This This Is the greatest artillery battle in tho the history history his his- tor tory of oC the world orld the expenditure of ut ammunition is fabulous writes write's an observer from behind the British lines JInes at Ypres describing the lI fight fight- ht- ht ins log of or April 25 5 and 26 which re resulted re re-I re suited in considerable gains sans for tor the G Germans Germane After Alter describing the almost Continuous continuous con con- cannonading that had bad been going on for two vo days with literally thousand nf lino In n ual a action n th the tho observer is suggests lS that the thc Intensity of oC the firing may bo be Judged b by the tho fact that at nt one small bridge across the twenty ont German guns Juns ought fought cl eighteen In English Eng Eng- lish and French guns JUns all nil night until I finally the guns suns w were re si si- si The Fr French he notes were fired d so rapidly th t the they Bounded like an endless roll ron of or thunder thun thun- der multiplied led by a thousand Touching briefly on tho the Canadians Canadians' part in the battle he says Qs One of ot the most notable Incidents of oC the battle was the work done b by the th-f Canadian supply column Not ot a cartridge or shell was a n second late Inte in reaching the tho man behind the gun hun and when the black fumes blew across a n section of or supply men nn and the they f fell lI others rushed in and kept the fi fighting line replenished until th the wind blow blew the fumes away During the afternoon two two aero- aero suppo supposed cd to be British British- marked and shaped ll exactly as the British aircraft are flew Clew over o the German Grman lines and It was noticed that the Germ German n shells played all aJi about them without effect Then rhen the they would fl fly over tho the British lines and 1 back again but tho the German ehi always fell far short of bringIng bringIng bringing bring bring- ing them down nl On their third visit the Canadian field battery batery let them ha have va several shots One Ohe aeroplane b badly ly damaged down in inthe p the German lines lIne and the other flew lw 1 w wout out of or sight behind the German tr trenches Describing the artillery r- r fighting the Tit writer r s says As far as our glasses lasses could carr carry we wo could see ee the white bursts of or shrapnel tho the black bursts of or the German giant slant guns JUns or orthe orthe the feather feathery floating clouds of or antl- antl I shells which broke In the reverberating dome of ot tho the sky where both German and English a aeroplanes soared The old theory or that shooting causes rain was disproved dis dis- proved for the sun shone hone brightly over oyer the indescribable scene The wind so strong strone- that the aeroplanes aeroplanes aeroplanes aero aero- planes facing it made no headway 3 and standing into the wind in one place like kites the British aeroplanes aero aero- planes planeD seemed a as stationary as f the theto to top of oC the Eiffel tower directing directing- t th the British rim tire fire From Krom rom jeh behind o our hill ll l two o B British IU h monoplanes lIou soared oared ll so low loto ov over r us is that tuat we could see their guns rhey They climbed into the sky to drive away a Taube biplane which was flying over oser oserthe the thc hill bill in tho heavy wIndrite wind The rite Taube took to flight at a n height so great that It looked like a l dot in inthe the thc sk sky even with glasses turned on It it German anti aircraft guns and the white puffs putts of or the British sky Runs guns punctuated the sk sky above and below blow the glittering dots which were vere the aeroplanes gl gleaming I in ill the sunlight Behind our OUI hill were ere Belgian pe peasants peasants peas peas- s- s ants ploughing Further urther behind them In a mt meadow adow we wo could rould see men playing football I discovered disco later that some Borne of or tho the men in the them m match were vere to march five e miles to tonight tonight to- to nl night ht and enter the trenches in the maelstrom of oC fire tire which we were be be- holding I spoke to one of ot the these e men who told me that he was one of ot those thoe who had bad been the first to tobe tobe be bl sent to the war last August The umpire impatiently called c. tim Um time while I tIlted talked to the goal oal keeper Tonight the glares of the battle I illuminate the sit sky of or Belgium for tor torman man many miles The tower of or tho the Cloth hall hlll at Ypres and ond two church steeples were visible In the rays of ot the evenIng evening even- even Ing InS sunset but many fires Ires were ere burning In the town and m my glimpse of ot the ruins of or the beautiful Cloth loth hall ball tow tower r ma may have been my last for the German shells were falling about It incessantly |