In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 100, 3 December 1915, Page 5

In the West.

TKE ARTILLERY AT WORK. United Press Association. Paris, December 2. A communique states that there is intense artillery activity at various points. The Anglo-French artillery cast of Boesiughe inflicted important damage on the enemy’s defences, including a thirty metres breach in a redoubt. *7*^7' "SWISS FRONTIER CLOSED. Rotterdam, December ]. The railways in West and South Germany .are congested, and the Swiss frontier is closed. It is believed that there is a concentration of Germans to the Eastward. Even Germans are not permitted to enter the Fatherland. CALLING up the french YOUTH. Paris, December 2. M. Gallic!, in the Chamber of Deputies, urged the calling up of the 1917 class, in order to make a decisive effort next spring. I - DISHONEST TRUSTEES ARRESTED. Paris, December 2. The police have arrested Omer Boulanger, president of the .Relief Committee for Distressed Belgians in Paris, and who was formerly King Leopold’s chauffeur, and also three bankers, formerly financiers in Brussels, on a charge of illicitly dealing with Belgian bank notes', honored by the Bank of France and Bank of England for Belgian refugees.