In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 57, 5 November 1915, Page 5

In the West

ALLIES CAPTURE TRENCHES. ENEMY RESIST DESPERATELY AND USE LIQUID FIRE. UNITED t'BEBI A6SOCI*nOH (Received 11. So a.m.) Paris, November d. A communique states : A rapid and vigorous attack enabled us to re-oc-cupy the bulk of the advanced trenches on Chasse farm, in the district of Champagne, and tixe enemy were driven out, notwithstanding desperate resistance and sprayings of liquid lire. OFFICIAL NEWS. \ The High Commissioner reports;— London, Nov. 4 (I.do p.m.) Lively grenade com bates occurred during the night in the trenches on the route from Lille to the south-east of Neuville and St. Vaast. At the same time there was violent artillery fighting. In the Champagne region at Farm Chasse. a French immediate counter-attack reoccupied yesterday evening portions of the trenches captured by the Germans, despite most desperate resistance and supported by liquid flame jets.

CAVELL MEMORIAL FOR PARIS. (Received 3.40 a.m.) Paris; November b. Le Matin states that one of the greatest sculptors has been commissioned to execute a great bas-relief or Miss Cavell’s execution for presentation to tbe city of Paris. - ARREST OF NATURALISED GERMAN, (Received 8.40 a.m.) Christiana, November o. fn connection with the lingo’s rubber cargo several persons were arrested, including a German merchant, who became a naturalised Norwegian in 1914.

OUR FRENCH FRIENDS, MINISTERIAL DECLARATIONS. Paris, November 3. MM. Briand and Vivani, in a Ministerial declaration in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate respectively, said that the Government were aiming to secure close and ceaseless co-opera-tion iu the activities of all Frenchmen. Any failure to maintain discipline will bo vigorously repressed, and all mistakes and failures will be punished. They intend to co-operate with the press by giving all war information the democracy can rightly demand. France would not sign peace until the enemy was reduced to impotence, and France had obtained guarantees of a lasting peace. Every day increased the solidarity of the Allies, hut coordination can he still more complete and more prompt. The visits of General Joffre to Italy and Britain had already enabled the Allies to better concert their present and approaching actions. There were stirring scenes in the Chamber after M. Briand had made his statement.

In replying -to M. Renaudel, a Socialist, who asked when peace would be signed, and said that France should have no idea of conquest, M. Briand, in a fiery oration, declared that France was never a bird of prey which would crush free peoples' Peace was still far away, but when signed it will be a solid peace, based on justice and liberty. The Deputies cheered lor several minutes, and ordered the speech to be placarded. A vote of confidence in the Government was carried by 515 to 1. M. Briand, replying to Serbia’s appeal to France, says that the first moment they wanted help against Germany’s enterprises in the Balkans it would attest the German failure in the principal theatres of hostilities. Germany attempted this diversion because their offensives were shattered in France and Russia. Germany was hiding indications of weakness under an appearance of strength, hut her hopes will be disappointed. She may postpone defeat, but cannot avert it. The enemy did not need to reckon on our lassitude or faint-heartedness. Wo have to conquer and will conquer.