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Show MACHINE GUNS DO GREAT WORK LONDON. April 15 The machine gun is the dominating feature of the! present open fighting southwest of, Ypres, says the correspondent of the daily Mail at British headquarters.1 and the issue of local battles often turns on the answer to the question of i which side can get its machine guns' into commanding positions first Just south of St. Floris. on the Lys canal toward Merville. British troops 1 rushed a brick field and were clearing it of Germans and would have killed them all but for a machine gun posted near by. The correspondent continues con-tinues "The idea behind the German plan in sending troops forward in succes- ' sive wave?, at intervals of about 100 yards, appears to be that under such I conditions retirement is almost impossible, impos-sible, a British officer explained to I the correspondent. " 'We nearly alwavs hreak the first line.' he said "It would fall back, but 11 Cannot, as the second comes up and I carries it forward again. There is a movement of recoil then, but by this time the third wave is advancing, and on comes the attack once more.' ! "Thus the Germans, by deliberatelv sacrificing large numbers, are able (sometimes to make little gaps in our line." A party of refugees from Bailleuil reports that the town is burning. oo |