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Show GERMAN SKULLS COVER GROUND Dead Lie Everywhere in De-vasted De-vasted District of Neuve Chapelle Terrible Loss of Both Sides. CORPSES UNBURIED British Brtak Through Enemy's Lines So Sudden That Men Themselves Were Surprised. Neuvo Chapelle, France, April 16, via London, 3:30 p. m. The ground to the wBt of this now shattered town of Neuve Chapelle, from which the British drove the Germans In the middle of March with such terrible loss of life for hoth sides. Is literally cobbled with German skulls. The dead lie buried in shallow graves everywhere every-where and the vicinity Is strewn with wreckage and debris The British have made It as tidy aB they can hut beneath many of the trenches and dugouts six inches of bayonet will meet the resistance of cloth and human flesh while In the No-Man's La lid between the new Brit Ish line and the German trenches to the east bodies lie thick Many Corpses Unburled. Neither the Germans nor the British Brit-ish dare attempt to remove the corpses, and, unless some situation develops to alter the relative position of the opposing lines, they are likely still to be there when summer comes. Many of the trenches and dusouts where the men live unwillingly harbor har-bor the bodies of thousands of men which were covered with earth after buried by both the Germans and the British and white crosses today dot the landscapes between the lines. So quickly did the British break through th German line that full details de-tails of the action are only now becoming be-coming known even to the men who participated. The suddenness of the advance was such that man) ot the men were so dazed that all they knew was that they got through. In fact the British staff officers laughingly laugh-ingly assert that it was too quick for) the best results, the German lin- gly ing way so suddenly that the Brit-i ish found themselves like a man who hits his opponent with all his might and encomit but slight resistant e and Is therehj thrown off his balance. bal-ance. "If we had had a chance for it that day 1 believe we could have taken Aubers also and perhaps Lille." said cne officer with a smile. "At any rate we gave the Germans their worst drubbing of the war and the effect along our front has been incalculable Every man In the British army be-lieves be-lieves sincerely that we could break; the German line if we wanted to and that is a mighty comfortable feel-: ing." |
