In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 37, 15 February 1915, Page 6

In the West

DUTCH PROTEST FROM BRUSSELS. (Received 9.25 a.m.) The Hague, February 14. The Dutch Chamber of Commerce at Brussels urged the Netherlands to act on behalf of 80,000 subjects in Belgium in at the unwarrantable interference in business and the unnecessary restriction of traffic, as the Germans showed cynical indifference to the grievances.

FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT.

ENEMY’S MOVEMENTS IN AL-

SACE.

(Received 9.25 a.m.)' Paris, February 16

A communique states: The enemy Bombarded Rheims, Ypres, and Nieuport, anff the trenches at the Great Dune, and, we effectively replied. Two columns of the enemy are advancing along the banks of the Lauch River in Alsace.

SHORTAGE OF CEREALS IN CER-

MANY. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sofia, February 14

M. Radoslavoff, in the Sobranje, declared the German official inquiry showed that to August the harvest shortage of cereals in Germany was one million tons.

THRILLING EPISODE IN THE VOSGES. (Received 2.15 p.m.) Geneva, February 14.

A" thrilling episode is reported in the Vosges. At Colbonliomme, forty Alpine chasseurs were cut off and they refused to surrender. Using their skis, they dashed down'the snow slope, and a desperate bayonet struggle ensued in the German trenches. All the .chasseurs died, but they killed at least eighty Germans.