ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2617, 12 November 1915, Page 5

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED Br IWef i&pli—Press Aißoclatlon—Copyrljht Paris, November 10. '& communique states: "The Gerinana attempted ap extensive attack on the Givenchy wood, but were repulsed. "Our batteries replied effectively to a new violent German bombardment north-eastward of Taliure." HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The Higli Commissioner reports: . London, November 11, 0.30 a.m. "In Bolgium there has beou very effective bombardment of the enemy's positions. "In Champagne, after yesterday's bombardment, when the enemy attacked the slope at Taliure, he was first stopped by curtain fire; next, haying succeeded in penetrating at one point, lie was repulsed by an immediate counter-attack." ALLIES HOLD THE INITIATIVE. | (Rec. November 11, 10.20 p.m.) London, November 10. Mr. Buchail, in the course of a lecture, said he believed that the decisive struggle would be in the West, where the Allies had completely recovered the initiative and broken- down some of the enemy's strongest defences. The spectre of her diminishing man-power ic drawing nearer in Germany. _ Mr. Stephen Graham writes that Russia's new armies of throe million men will be sufficient to turn the scales in tho spring.