ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2544, 19 August 1915, Page 5

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

GRENADE FIGHTING IN THE ARGGNNE ENEMY ATTEMPTS TO LEAVE HIS TRENCHES The High Commissioner reports:— c, London, August 17, 4.35 p.m. "There has been grenado fighting in the Argonne at Foiitaiue-aux-Charmos and Haute Chevauehee. At tho latter point, tlie Germans left tlieir trenches to attack, but the French fire forced them back again." FRENCH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. Bt Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August IS, 10.10 p.m.) Paris, August 18. Official—have violently bombarded the enemy's positions in tho Lingo Kopf district, tho Reichacker Kopf, and tho ridge between Sondernach and Lnndorsbach (in Alsace), where our_ infantry has gained a footing on the ridge and repelled the enemy's counter-at-tacks." GERMAN' OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. Amsterdam, August 17. A German communique states: "Our con.it. ;irtillor,y tlmvg off tw? dwtioycrs at Ostand.

We captured an English aeroplane ana tvro officers near Bapaume." the charnel house at hooce. A DREADFUL SPECTACLE. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) rru ht\ ■. London, August 17. t - v Mail" says: "Tho German trenches a t Hooge wero in nn indescribable condition. No troublo had been taken to bury the dead of former fights, and the floors were full of Germans stamped into tlio earth. In one place, boots protruding from the sandbags showed that bodies had been used in building up a parapet, 'and tho British found the dead piled lip in heaps on the remains of comrades, making a truly hornble spectacle." DRIVEN BACK TO ZEEBRUGGE GERMAN SUBMARINES MEET OUR DESTROYERS. (Rec. August 18, 11.20 p.m.) Amsterdam, August 18. German submarines attempted to leavo Zcobruggc, but British destroyers drove them back, despite the fire of the German shore batteries.