In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 76, 29 July 1915, Page 5

In the West.

WATER AMD AIR.

SUBMARINES IN THE SCHELDT

AEROPLANES AT GHENT

r.MTKi) I*l! less Association. Received !).lo a.in.) Amsterdam, July ‘JS. The twelfth submarine from Antwerp passed down the Scheldt and reached Zeebrngge. Allied airmen on .Monday bombed submarines lying in the Scheldt and the Ghent canal, hut did no damage, though they destroyed the German guardhouse nearby.

An aerodrome has been established in the St. Denis .Square, Ghent, and one hundred airmen practice daily, ten to twenty aeroplanes being constantly in the air.

GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL. i Received ibid a.in.) Paris, July 2S. A communique states: The Germans north of Souchez, after a heavy bombardment, launched attacks at three different points, and after a very lively light the Germans were driven out of the trenches, where they had succeeded iu penetrating, except at one point. where they hold twenty metres of saphead. Slight progress was made on our right wing.

A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

(Received 12.85 a.m.) Berlin, July 28

A communique states; The Silesian Laudsturm stormed the trenches north-west of Souchez and captured tour machine-guns. On the Liuge-kopf-Barrenkopf lino,after a four hours hand-to-hand struggle, our counterattacks repulsed the French attacks. We captured the trenches lost at Lingokopf, except a small portion.

OFFICIAL REPORTS.

The High Commissioner reports; — London. July ‘2Bth t 4.40 p.m.)

In Artois, north of Souchez. the Germans, after heavy bombardment, attacked at three points. There was lively lighting, and the advanced trenches were penetrated, except at one point, where twenty metres were retained. In the Argo imp, in the region of Fontaine and Cliarmes. the enemy attempted an attack, and was repnlstd with infantry lire. In the Dardanelles, aeroplanes bombarded successfully a new enemy aviation camp, striking the hangars and benzine depot, and causing considerable fires.

SEVEN MEN A MINUTE. If the German population is larger than ours in the United Kingdom, we must not Forget (writes the military correspondent of The Times) that the German casualties have probably 'been ten times more numerous than ours have been, and that the strain ol lighting on two fronts has been immense. We know what it means to hold a 40-mile front in France, and should endeavour to visualise what it will cost the enemy to fight on three fronts from the North Sea to Switzerland, from the Tyrol to Montenegro and Serbia, and from the Bukowina to the Baltic. This strain, this tremendous strain, must tell in the long run. No nation can go on losing seven men a minute, day and night, as the Germans do,without in the end becoming exhausted. Every month of war causes Germany 400,000 casualties. Gong ago the original German Army as mobilised disappeared, and its physical excellence is not maintained by all the new recruits. \\ ith callow youths, with fathers of families, and with the Kaiser’s “dogs and cats” in reserve, the Germans fight on, applying to the destruction of their enemy’s 'men, women and children every devilish contrivance that science can suggest. The supply of men is not exhausted, but to a large extent the flower of the German youth has withered at a moment when ours is about to blossom, and no one can regard this curious development without speculating and building hopefully upon the result.