ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 30 November 1915, Page 7

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

GREAT ACTIVITY

ARTILLERY DUELS AND f AIR-FIGHTS

Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copjilßlit Paris, November 28. A feature of a communique is the report of fighting in the Labyrinth, "where- the enemy atacked and occupied only a mine cavity, and failed to reach ouir trenches. A violent struggle followed. It resulted in our favour. "French aeroplanes did splendid work. They dropped ninety bombs on the station at Noyon, and compelled captive balloons to descend in the German lines. "There has been no change on the remainder of the front." "The enemy caused three successive clouds of asphyxiating gas v in the Bethincourt sector, and afterwards indulged in a violent bombardment, but our curtains of fire stopped' his infantry the moment the attack began." LIVELY AIR COMBATS. (Rec. November 29, p. 5 p.m.) Paris, November 29. A communique states: "There haß been a series of aerial combats and raids. A squadron of ten machines ignited the enemy's sheds at Habsheim, near Mulhou.se (Mulhausen, in Alsace). "We brought down four machines. One fell into the sea at Westonde, and a German torpedo-boat and several pinnaces put out from Ostend and Mifdelkerke to the rescue. The Allies' seaplanes and artillery sank a pinnace." SUCCESSFUL AIR RAID. ' Amsterdam, November 28. An air raid by the Allies on' Thursday destroyed tho railway bridge over the Scheldt neat Oudenarde, on the Court-trai-Brussels railway. GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. (Rec. November 29, 8.5 p.m.) ' Amsterdam, November. 28. A German official communiquo states: "The enemy's artillery is showjng great activity in' Champagne." THE CERMAN LOSSES. ANALYSED BY A WAR CORRESPONDENT. Paris, November 28. Werner Allen, a representative of tho British _ Press with the French Army, -has estimated the German losses to the end of October, 1915, at four and. a half million on all fronts, of which number three million are dead, or prisoners, or permanently disabled: The casualties now total 300,000 a month, of which one-third are able to return to the front. Germany will bo compelled to raise tho. i age limit for military service above forty-five. Already a secret circular has been issued by the authorities to recrister men of forty-sis to fifty years. The army doctors are now passing as fit for service men with one eye, lamo,_ hunchbacks, sufferers from tuberculosis, and heart disease.