In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 29 November 1915, Page 5

In the West

THE CERMAH CASUALTIES, LOSS TO OCTOBER. 4,500,000. ACE LIMIT MUST BE RAISED. ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN RECRUITING. United Pubsb Association. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Paris, November 27. -Mr Warner Allen, representative of the British press with the French Army, has estimated that the German losses to the end of October, 1915, at four and a-half millions on all fronts, whereof three million are dead, prisoners, or permanently disabled. The casualties now total 300,000 a mouth, whereof one-third are able to return to the front. Germany will he compelled to raise the age limit of military service above forty-five. Already a secret circular lias been issued stating that the authorities will register men from forty-six to fifty. The army doctors are now passing as fit for service men with one eye, or who are lame, hunchbacks, and sufferers from tuberculosis and heart disease.

TRENCH WARFARE CONTINUES. London, November 27. Sir John French reports:—Our artillery has bombarded many portions of the German trenches during the past four days, destroying wire and breaching parapets. The. enemy made little reply, though hostile artillery is active northward of Albert, Loos, Ploegsteert, and east of Ypres. The enemy during the evening of the 22nd delivered a heavy bomb attack on a mine crater southward of the Be-thune-La Bassee road, but were repulsed. Mining is constant everywhere. Twenty-three aeroplanes on November 2p successfully bombed the Ger,inan<i hut encampment eastward of Albert. ■ , : • -n. i ■ ■ : 1 (\ i ALLIED AIRMEN DESTROY RAILKBi’HTfr TSM ) (Received 8.5 a.m.) ~.... | Amsterdam) : Ntffefaib<*ri A Allidd airmen on ThtfrSclaiy ddstroyted - near Outdaile, on the Courtrai-Brussels railwaj-. -'' l - !i - -'><•

ENEMY USE OF ASPHYXIATING 3* i CAS. ' l!1 ’‘ fßeceived 8.5 a.m.) Paris, November 28. A colnm unique. states : The enemy, released three successive clouds of asphyxiating gas -at - the Bcthincourc sector, hud thereafter there was a violent Our of h S ‘inome7it the atxncjS h’egaian r .K ...) hv# I IV r* \:> -.a,, \ REPATRIATED FRFNCHMEIiIj^ (R.ccjcdved),B.s,: uah.) '■ l ' November 28. Ah 'exchange message from Geneva staters that German has agreed to repatriate many of the French subjects who were taken as hostages. Twenty thousand have been sent to Switzerland. MISS CAVELL’S ACCUSERS COME TO IGNOBLE END.

(Received 8.3.5 a.m.) . Amsterdam, November 28. ' According to German advices from Brussels, the French soldiers, to whose confession Miss Cn.veil’s arrest was attributed, committed suicide in a military prison VIOLENT STRUGGLE. FAVORABLE TO ALLIED. FRENCH AIRMEN’S GOOD WORK. (Received 12.15 p.m.) Paris, November 28. A communique states: The feature of the lighting at the Labyrinth, where the enemy attacked, is that they occupied the only mine cavity, hut failed to reach our trenches. A violent struggle followed, which resulted in our favor. French aeroplanes did splendid work. They dropped ninety bombs on the station at Noyon and compelled the German captive haloon.s to descend. On the other fronts there is no change.