In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 34, 11 February 1915, Page 5

In the West.

CARDINAL MERCSER. STILL IMPRISONED AT MALINES OUTSIDE CORRESPONDENCE FORBIDDEN. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 10. A resident of Brussels states that Cardinal Mercier is still a prisoner in the palace at Malines, and is prevented from communicating with the outside world and forbidden to correspond with the members of his Diocese.

“USELESS ATTACKS” BY CER-

MANS.

United Press Association. Loudon, February 10

A French eye-witness says that for some days prior to February 6 few actions by small bodies on strictly narrow fronts had no effect on the main operations. The enemy’s dead found at La Bus,see, La Creutepethes, Bagatelle, and Wnevre as the outcome of actions on the 26th, 27th and 28th, indicate that the Gormans lost 4000 killed and 16,000 wounded. It is difficult to understand these useless attacks.

FIGHT FOR THE GREAT DUNE.

London, February 10.

,An earlier attack on the Great Dune, which was intended as a reconnaisance, revealed the strength of the German extreme right. Three or four companies advanced in the morning of the 28th and bayonetted many Germans crouching in cover. An enfilading fire drove us back. We threw up rudimentary earthworks which the German artillery demolished. Nevertheless the mitrailleurs hung on till nightfall. Two sections then rushed to the top of the Grand Dune and one began to descend on the opposite side when the enemy’s artillery on the second crest wiped them out, except six, who held a hill redoubt until all were killed.

RHEIMS AND SOISSONS.

BOMBARDMENT RECOMMENCED.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) Paris, February 10

The Germans have recommenced the bombardment of Rheims and Soissons, but the shells have been mostly defective. Taubes also bombed Rheims. CONSULS SUSPENDED AT BRUCES (Received 9.25 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 10. The Telegraaf states that the Consuls at Bruges refused to open the military commander’s order to remove escutcheons from residences, and all the consuls were suspended. Some of the escutcheons were forcibly removed, and the consuls were obliged to surrender their arms and uniforms. The Turkish consul has gone to Berlin to protest.