In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 5 August 1916, Page 5

In the West

FLEURY OCCUPIED.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra-

lian andi N.*ZL’Oahl© Association

Paris, August 3.

A communique states : By successive attacks we captured all the trenches between south-east of, Thiaumont and Hill 320 and have completely occupied Fleury, prisonering 650, making 175 Q here since Tuesday. We also regained most of the ground lost at Chenois.

TALK from the taceblatt.

Rotterdam, August 4

The Berliner Tageblatt’s correspondent admits that sharpshooters have been specially placed in the breastworks to pick off Anzac officers, and adds, “We won’t say anything against the Australasians. They are strong fellows, but we don’t like their faces or eyes. They are not the kind of people who appeal to us. Ihej may be good marksmen and fearful fighters, but not a single Bavarian fears them.”

MORE HUN BRUTALITY.

London, August 3

The Telegraaf states that the Germans are starving the Belgian workmen who refuse to work on the railways and that thousands of Russian prisoners who have been brought into the Somme region are being forced to construct trenches there.

review of the war.

THE ALLIES’ WATCHWORD.

“AWAY WITH THE HO'HENZOL-

LERMS !”

(Received 9-25 a.m.) Paris, August 4. Joseph Reinach, writing in the Figaro, launches what will probably become the Allies’ watchword, “Away with the Hohenzollerns.” The writer adds: “We must abolish Gorman militarism, the sould of which is the House of Hohenzollcrn, with its feudal castes and birds of prey. Tim -war is the personal work of the Kai- ' S er. He and his feudal Junkers willed it. The Kaiser’s place is in dock of infamy. He is the master assassin. The Allies will never agree to treaty with the Kaiser and the members of the Hohenzollerns.”

"PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE."

Press Association—Copyright. Published in “The Times.” > (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, August 4. Lord Sydenham, in his review of the two years of war, adds: The Allies face the third year with new hopes, an unshaken resolve, a high morale, and untouched resources. Austria, twice defeated, is faced with a despci - ate military and economic position. Turkey has lost Armenia, and is faced with Arab revolt. Hler now hardly valid ally, Bulgaria, is between the upper and nether millstones if Rounjania T moves. In Germany the feeling is one of deepening hardship. Political rifts are more frequent, and the war tends to become a fight for existence between the dynasty, the ruling classes,

and the cruelly-deceived people. Only a victory in the field will bring decision, but the Allied armies have learnt that they are able to beat the Germans'on equal terms. German superiority in material has been destroyed, and every month sees an increase in tlie Allies’ equipment. More efforts and sacrifices are demanded, and patience and fortitude must bo the national watchwords, but the end should not be far distant.

GERMANY’S CRIMES.

THE DEPORTATION ATROCITIES.

Press Association—Copyright. Published ‘in “The Times.”

London, August 3,

The Yellow Book issued relative to the slave raid in N the north of France discloses that the German authorities in April issued' an appeal for agricultural labor, but the meagre response resulted in an order for wholesale deportation, excepting young children, mothers and old men. An hour and a half’s warning was given, and a clerical and civil protest 'was disregarded. A bishop went to the general in command, who told him to be quiet and get out. The laboring classes mostly suffered from twenty to thirty per cent, of the women being taken. Some of the parents lost their reason when they saw their daughters taken by vote. German officers admitted that nothing could cleanse the German flag from this latest foul stain. The splendid spirit of the victims was the outstanding feature. They defiantly shouted “Vive la France,” and sang the “Mar sella ise.” The deporters are employed in mending roads, digging trenches, and in making munitions The worst feature is that women are employed as cooks for the German troops, and as servants to the officers. Other deportees are working on the railways, at factories and mines for inhuman hours. They are not paid and are liable to Hogging. Some were sent to the mines and factories in Rhineland and Westphalia, while a large number of the civilians who were interned since the outbreak of the-war are working immediately behind the German lines in France.

FIERCE STRUGGLE AT VERDUN

LIVELY COMBATS CONTINUES

The High Commissioner reports London, August 4 (b.d p,m. On the right of the Meuse, the b:

tie is being continued on the irons from Thiaumont to Floury, tiie Germans attacking all night with extreme stubbornness. Several counterattacks and every effectives essayed against positions in the neighbourhood of the Thiaumont work were repulsed with heavy enemy losses. Our troops sueeeeded in taking the, work, which they afterwards abandoned under the most powerful bombardment, bringing back eighty prisoners. In the region of Floury, the fighting was less violent. . The Germans multiplied their counter-attacks, following intense artillerying. Alter several ineffective attempts, they sot foot in one part southwards of Floury, where the combat continues very lively. All efforts to dislodge us from a station situated south-east of the village wore broken by the resistance of our troops. An enemy attack at night on our positions east of Va< herauvdle was ropidsed with heavy losses. In the region of Vaux, thapitre Wood, and Chenois, artillerying is very active. In the Vosges, at ten o’clock in 4 he evening, an enemy attack <>u :l salient at Chapeuotte, which was dispersed without him reaching our lines.

FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received 1.55 a.in.) ■ - Paris, August 4. A communique states; Wo penetrated the Thiaumont work, but evacuated it later under lorco ol a bombardment. The Germans frequently . attacked Floury, and after intense bombardment, reached the southward of the village, but failed to dislodge us. Elsewhere the battle continues. V» e bombed the railway station ot Mayen ■and munition works on the So man;.

i GENERAL HAIG’S REPORT

| OPERATIONS ON BRITISH LINE.

I The High Commissioner Reports; i London, August -I (2 p.m.)

| Sir Douglas Haig reports: Last night, a.s a result of a minor operation westwards of Poziercs, we gained some ground. As a result of other minor operations to northwards oi Bazentin lo Petit, and also north ol Delville Wood, we captured a few prisoners. During the night there was .considerable artillery fire on various portions of the British front. A British raiding party destroyed an enemy mine shaft cast of Loos.

Near the Ypres and Comminos Hoad, small mines were exploded on the enemy’s lines, the craters being occupied by us.