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In the West.

ENEMY TRENCH MINED. United Piuses Association (.Received 11.15 a.m.) Paris, August 16. A communique states: la the Vosges tire explosion of a mine m an enemy trench between iinruhauj.it ami Les Pas Amur I/, wilier enabled us to capture a number of prisoners, two bomb-throwers, and some machine guns. ; j CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMAN LIES. (Received 11.15 a.m.) London, August 16. German agents are endeavoring through neutral newspapers to stir up feeling in France'that England is uot| doing enough, and many leading monj in France are organising a campaign* to contradict the statements. VISIT TO THE HOSPITALS. (Received 11.15 a.m.) London,'August 16. At the request of the Australian Hospital Committee, Hon. Sir Jol*: McCall, Agent-General for Tasmania, and the Hon. Wise visited Wimereux and were grabilied to hnd the general! organisation to be very high, there, being excellent equipment and a skill-j ed stuff. Ly the courtesy of the French and British Governments, they visited the other hospitals in the district. The Australians has the lowest death-rate. They were informed that the French Red Cross was greatly in needs of funds, its hospitals having to be managed most economically. THE HOOCE SALIENT.

Loudon, August 15

Reuter’s correspondent at tire .British Headquarters describes the success at Hoogo ou Monday, and says it was duo to the magnificent co-op-eration of tiie artillery, and the splendid spirit of the infantry. The Brit'ish guas were undoubtedly superior. They blew the enemy entanglements (skyward and made frequent breaches in the parapet. These splendid results heartened the men for the attack, which was arranged for between three and four in the morning. At 'the exact moment the men swarmed (the parapets in a surging stream that nothing could stop. The Germans, paralysed by the incessant shellfire, ■ were unable, to seriously resist, and ' tile British, after a little bayonet ! work, quickly captured the lirst hue. •The Germans were disinclined to light [and took to their heels. Many shel- | bored in dug-outs some of which were i twenty feet - deep, and these' were j promptly finished with bombs, ! ped by passing bombers, each of whom i was supported by a bayonet man. A ! sergeant who noted the position of a j trench mortal', rushed thither, topj pled headlong over the parapet, lost his riiie, and fell liat ou his back in the bottom of a trench. A sentry was on the poiut of throwing a bomb when the sergeant rose up and dealt him a mighty kick in the ribs. A “Tommy” then arrived and bayonsttcd the sentry. Elsewhere a German oUlcer, with a revolver in each hand, emerged (from a dugout, and shot two Tummies, but a third piuned the officer with a bayonet. Scores of Germans were later on heaud knocking in the dug-outs. The explosions of the heavy shells covered the entrances, temporarily burying the men, who were dug out, and whom the British puisonored. A large mine crater was used as a shelter for massiug reserves, and iu this one hundred surrendered, while four hundred dead were strewn around. The total German losses in the engagement numbered three thousand. Three of the captured otiicers, who wore wearing iron crosses, were gentleness itself compared with the previous burly Prussians, and resembled clerks or schoolmasters. Boots and limbs were everywhere projecting from the fld<srs of the trenches, a,nd it is difficult to imagine how men lived under such conditions. Many lightly wounded Tommies refused to report to the doctors, so as not to miss the finish of a scrap unparralelled for daring. A party of engineers sallied out at daylight, and erected entanglements in trout of the captured trenches, and expressed indignation on discovering biiat the Germans had chipped and reversed their bullets, had sawed bayo-j acts, and used incendiary bullets. i

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 8

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In the West. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 8

In the West. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 8

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