In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 13, 14 September 1915, Page 5

In the West.

BELGIUM'S BRAVE ARMY. j NOW MORE NUMEROUS AND BETTER ARMED. United Press Association. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Paris ,September 13. A Belgian officer states that the army is more numerous and better armed than at the outbreak of the was despite German occupation. The response of the 1914 class shows only it five,per cent, decrease in the home provinces, the maximum decrease being twenty per cent. OUR ALLIES OF MAHOMET. 574 ARRIVE IN FRANCE. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Paris, September 13. Five hundred and seventy-four Sunnaites (Mahomedans) have arrived at Marseilles. A SHIPPING SCANDAL. (Received 12.35 p.m.) Pam, September 13. Damava, a well-known Havre shipowner, was arrested and court-mar-tialled for attempting to persuade an English shipping firm to increase by £6OOO each the selling price, of, three vessels being sold to the French Minister of Marine. PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL. GERMANS RESENT RECENT ORDER. (Received 12.35 p.m.) Paris, September 13. A French official wireless states there is an agitation going on in Germany over a recent order prohibiting the safe o'f alcohol. Firms interested have passed resolutions stating that' Germans' do not, privation, aii/I demanding that the order be rliitigattfd or revoked. i $ i ■"-■<i; FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. r •I'll.' • ' : ' V fiarisi 1 September! 13. ,: I ;a' .coinmu^ attack north of Souchez was easily repulsed., ( mine" ' Ouej ; nortli' of the Somne before • Fay ■. stubbovnjy continues. There has been a violent bombardment in the sectors Arman(*nirt, Beauvraignes plateaux, Quennevieres, and Denouvron.