General Macready, Adjutant-General, G.H.Q., was always most anxious to help the Indian Corps, and we owe him a debt of gratitude for many actions taken by him to keep our house in order. It will interest those who sympathise with the complications of this command to glance at the accompanying short extract from our “Summary of News,” 1st to 5th June 1915. It was taken haphazard from many in my possession. In order to convey to the Indians some idea of what was going on in all theatres of war it was of course necessary to publish such news in their own language. This meant, first, translation of the ordinary summary issued to the Army into Hindustani, and then the local presentation of it in the Persian and the Hindi character. It was all done rapidly and regularly, with a result that the sepoy in the trenches was enabled to learn frequently what his comrades and the Allied Armies were doing. Without it he would have known nothing of either. _Summary of News, 1st June to 5th June 1915._ WESTERN THEATRE _British Front._—The British troops have captured the Château of Hooge, about 2–1/2 miles from Ypres on the Menin road. On the night of the 4th-5th June the British on the right of the Indian Corps captured forty-eight German prisoners of the 56th Regiment, Seventh Corps. These are mostly men between thirty-five and forty years of age, who have only recently been called up for service. From their statements it appears that in this neighbourhood the enemy has at present no apparatus for asphyxiating gas. _French Front._—The French continue to advance near Notre Dame de Lorette and Souchez, fifteen to twenty miles south of the Indian Corps. On the 31st May they captured the front German trenches of the large work known as the “Labyrinth,” taking four officers and 146 men. The “Labyrinth” was composed of subterranean chambers believed by the enemy to be impregnable. The French also captured the Souchez Sugar Factory, a large and strongly defended building. During the night the Germans recaptured it, but were driven out again by our Allies at daybreak on the 1st June. During this battle the French captured over 800 prisoners, including nine officers, fifty N.C.O.’s and two machine-guns. They are now in firm possession of the building and of the trenches all round it. The following particulars of the results of the fighting in this neighbourhood are issued officially by the French authorities: “Between the 9th May and 1st June 3100 German prisoners, including sixty-four officers, were captured, and 2600 German corpses buried, all by one French Division.” This probably represents a loss of at least 10,000 killed, wounded, and prisoners. “The losses of this French Division were about 3200 in all, of which two-thirds were only slightly wounded.” Ends.