In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 71, 23 July 1915, Page 5

In the West.

FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. United Press Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.)

Paris. July 22

A communique states: There was violent fighting on Tuesday night and Wednesday on the heights at Little Ileichsacherkopf, and following our attack the Germans counter-atacked nine times. Two Chasseur battalions [held the enemy, inflicting heavy losses on the Germans.

Our aviators dropped twelve shells on Autry station, north of Dinerville.

There has been a calm on our front at the Dardanelles since the 13th. OFFICIAL WAR NEWS, The High Commissioner reports:— London, July 22 (4.40 p.m.) Paris reports of the Dardanelles state that there has been a calm on the front since the Allies’ success of ten days ago. In the western campaign French airmen dropped twelve bombs on Autry station. In the region of Munster, the Allies captured a trench.

FIVE MILLIONS KILLED.

SEVEN MILLIONS WOUNDED.

(Received 9.15 a.ra.)

Paris. Julv 22

Le Matin makes the striking statement that- the total killed in Europe numbered five millions and the wounded seven millions.

GERMAN CLAIMS IN THE WEST.

(Received 12.20 p.m.)

'Amsterdam, Julv 22

A German communique claims that the Bavarians bloodily repulsed six of the enemy’s attacks at Reichesaeherkopf and captured portion of the French trenches. Wo brought down an enemy biplane at Panov wood. Three German airmen, in an aerial fight over the Mnenster Valley, forced three adversaries to descend in the Thann Valley. MISCELLANEOUS. Paris, July 22. Travellers from Lower Alsace report that several bombs on Monday exploded on a crowded troop tram at t oiniar. with frightful results. Germany has deported 1-10 prominent personages from Bonhaix to Germany, chiefly big millowners. for refusing to work for the German aimy. A pilot of an Albatross narrates that he saw a new type of airship, and at 7500 feet up, when within a hundred yards, lie opened lire. The German pilot was shot through the heed and collapsed. Uiere was another | man, who threw up his hands at anlother volley, and then the aviatie overturned, afire, and fell headlong. Plus was the fiftieth time he had pursued the bodies' aeroplanes, but the first time he had brought one down. London, July 21. The Germans in Belgium arc having to attend lectures on history and political economy. A Landsturmer complained: “I am examining peasants’ passports for eternity, and haven’t seen even a dog-fight; and now I have to go to school again.”

Dr Dillon, in an article in the Quarterly Review, declares that the Vatican is supporting Germany. The Pope is known to nurse feelings the reverse of friendly towards Russia, and has set his heart on propping up Austria as a large Catholic empire. His Teutonic favorites, whom he has obstinately rehised to dismiss, wheedled him to it rant an interview.