In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 10 March 1915, Page 5

In the West

SUCCESSFUL MINING OPERATIONS. United Fresh Association. (Received 9.20 a.in.) London, March 9. Sir .Joil 11 French’s bulletin states:— Tlie situation is unchanged. Our mastery over the enemy sappers was particularly successful in the Vpres region ami materially assisted mining. We exploded a mine under the German trenches on Friday night.

FRENCH DAILY ADVANCE.

Loudon, March 9

The Times’ correspondent in Paris says that the wet weather which set in on Saturday will probably delay further progress in the Champagne district, which is a pity, because it will give the Germans time to re-organise their defensive position. The French offensive began on 28th February and not a day passed since without some progress being made. The total advance at any point does not amount to a mile, but each day the enemy has a more difficult defence problem to face.

Paris, March 9

Official.—Snowstorms in the Champagne district are interfering with operations, but we continue to advance west of Perthes.

We lost some ground between Mesnil and Boausojour, but gained a hundred metres north-cast of Mesni!. Wo continue to progress north of Badenvillier.

SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION. London, March 9. German prisoners state that the German batteries are restricted to forty shots daily unless the general of the division otherwise directs. THE NEED FOR GERMAN AMBULANCES. (Received 8.5 a.m.) Paris, March 9. A German regiment attacking on February 16th lost 700 killed, and ambulances were employed for three weeks carrying them off. Nearly four hundred are seriously wounded nightly. ALSACE AND LORRAINE. AFTER FORTY YEARS OF SUF-

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RESPONSE TO THE BUGLES.

Times and Sydney Sun Service (Received 8 a.m.)

Loudon, March 9

The Times’ correspondent at Paris says that after forty years’ sufferings Alsace and Lorraine heard the bugles of justice and victory blow, and responded as well as they could. A band of 5000 of her sons crossed to France, and now the silence of the cemetery reigns, except for one, radiant patch opposite Belfort, embracing about fifteen miles of re-conquered Alsace.

M. Poincare recently visited the district, when the old people wept for joy, and the children cheered him in the streets, and fluttered Hags which had been hidden in cellars for forty years. It was a touching welcome, he said, disproving the assertion that the second generation had grown lukewarm. He declared that the people were to-day more anti-German than ever.