In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 43, 21 June 1915, Page 5

In the West

ON THE BERLJN EXCHANGE A COMPARISON OF PRICES. Unhid Pnaaa AsiooiAtiOH. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Pans, June 20. i Although the publication of the Berlin. Exchange quotations are forbidden under severe penalty, Le Matin has obtained a. reliable comparison of the prices. Prussian 3J per cents, which were quoted in August, 1914, at 75J, are now 59. Imperial fours, then at 96, are now 54. Austrian 4 J at 95 £ are now 44. SQUEEZING THE GERMANS. GOOD NEWS FROM FRANCE. HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, June 20. The Central News' Dunkirk correspondent states that the French 'offensive from Lorette to Neuville squeezed 150.000 Germans into a front of 41 miles, were they are being sacrificed in a despairing effort to save the remnants of the defensive system, the French artillery wiping out whole ranks of the enemy. Heavy artillery, mortars, grenades, and aerial torpedoes are being \itilised in an almost continuous bombardment, being automatically followed by bayonet charges when the Germans are incapable of resisting. A single mine shaft had 250 Germans as defenders, of which two hundred were wiped out, and the rest were macje prisoners.

The stream at Souckez village is blocked with German dead. G-erman heavy artillery continues bombarding. The advance, is costly. One shell struck the .village of Marequi where 160 were billeted, and the shell killed eighty-nine. THE SPY MENACE. DEATH SENTENCE SMPOSEO. v Paris, June 19. Entile Kauvelier, wife of a Belgian, and Henri. Gaurearedt, a native of Dunkirk, who were conducting; a potato business at Chapelle, have been sentenced to death for syping. They were found at Herseek in possession of luminous'fuses, which they used for the purpose of signalling the Germans. They confessed after forty-nine witnesses had been heard.