In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 41, 18 October 1915, Page 8

In the West

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BIG oHo.OAGE OF MEAT. rnikOKb Or Fu'tAU) CROP. Hicoi AURAMTS’ i'fiOHIBiVIVE FRifoES. Unitkjj Tunas Association. tiL. reived U.oU .am. ; ■ Amsterdam, October 16. Great distress prevails iu Austria, ire burgomaster at Munich appeals o the citizens to have only lour ■ieat meals weekly, consequent on the ■ miinishing number of pigs and. cattle iirough the heavy army demands. Bepile Government assurance concernug tiie harvest, the bread cards are icing more strictly enforced. dho

Austro-Hungarian potato crop is m-i ! miiiicont. .Prohibitive prices are beii ’ jo' ctuirgo tllLb tilU lOdbilUriii.lbfci* I jailors and dvosbuinkers di 'have been ruined owing to the diveiroa oi cloth lor military use. 3£h WEEN TPRES AND LOOS. Paris, October 15. ilieie was an important British; I access between A pres and Loos on I •, Wednesday night, alter a most sail-: quinary temporary cheek through a Get-man counter-attack. The British, by excellent artillery preparation, attacked the enemy north-oast oi Vermelles, capturing several trou- ' cues. | i ric GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. London, October Id. ] A .Gorlin communique' reports: Wo i uuvu again driven the Hughsh out oi our positions north-east and east el j v ermelles, and they only retain a j small portion oi the trenches on the j western fringe oi the gravel quarry, j The Saxons, east of Auberive, captured a French place d’armes, whence an j attack could bo made on our po*si- ! tions, and took three hundred pnsonjers and several machine-guns. I 1 i ItfiJliili FROM THE ALLIES. London October iopir John French reports: With re,iwi:e to the German communique, > _ .- : ,>1 ly change in the situation south \a i.,a- Lassee Canal is that wo have Pvcher improved our position, in the ,hciizollom redoubt, and hold all the fund gained on October 13Haris, October id. A communique says; After a vio- .. . , bombardment tbo enemy gained .a looting in part of his former trou- ) dies east of AuLwerivo. ive recaptured the trenches which the enemy held since October 9, north :of Hellion. The enemy in the Vosges delivered ja violent attack for a length ol live kilometres on the front Achieusen-|Hartmaus-’vYiollerkopf. They used | burning petrol and ■succeeded i u 1>0 " occupying the trenches on the summit of Uartmaus-Wielcrkopf, hut were repuly,ed elsewhere. DUTCH FRONTIER CLOSED. i Amsterdam, October 15. | The Belgian-Butch frontier has been '{(dosed. {Reinforcements are arriving jat the Ypres-Arras front, i SUCCESS FOR THE FRENCH. Paris, October 17. 1 A conumunique states; We com- | plptoly repulsed German attacks at |Loosenhache, Arthos, and on the nor|I hern. ■ .slope of Souchez valley. Trench (lighting continues south oi the Somme. | t.:boj G-Ouesnoy-Santcrre line. hi io enemy are using “tear” shells, a-P alled because of the oli’ect of the gu ses. upon the eyes. , In the Champagne, bomb' and grenpide lighting is proceeding, j In the Argonne, north of La Hou!yeote and V auquois, a vigorous coun- | tor-attack enabled us to recapture all {positions on th© summit of Hartmans , Wiellerkopf, and also to | capture a fort. j A squadron of aeroplanes on Salurfuay bombed Sabjons station and Metz, j .Numerous hits were observed on the } Litton and on, a moving train. FATE OF BRAVE ENGLISHWOMAN. London, October 16. Tbo United .States Ambassador has ' 'donned tin Foreign Office that Hdith Waved lately the headmistress of a jtrainmg school at Brussels, was ar;rested in August, and executed on [August 13, it is understood on a /-barge of harboring fugitive British 'and French soldions, and Belgians of military age and assisting them to ■escape from Belgium to join the colors. the country horrified. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, -October 17. Miss ■ Cavoll. -was a daughter of a lorraer Vicar of Swexrdeston. Her execution has sent a thrill of horror throughout the country. fftmamm ffßfl IS’Jtß*®* WMMiIWBBMBtW