GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 21 September 1916, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

AM ORGY OF SLAUGHTER.

Press Association—Copyright Published in "The Times."

London, September 20,

The war correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Somme offensive is most terrible, involving continuous fighting. The enemy only pauses to hastily prepare his new attacks. His crushing artillery and infantry superiority are indulging in perfectly horrible orgies of modern scientific destruction. The German soldiers are fighting in hell, making the niost gigantic sacrifices for the Fatherland. How long, he asks, can this slaughter last. The correspondent points out that the enemy is immensely strong, while Germany is compelled to hold the whole West front, the greater portion of the East front, as well as supporting be K allies in the Carpathians, in Transylvania, on the Dobrudja. and in Turkey. Paris. September 20. A national company has been projected to manufacture dye and chemical products. The Government guarantees the. company the use of ;#eJttP"fll war factories after the war, reserving the power to order the manufacture of exolosives and chemicals. A commercial understanding has also been completed between similar ' British and Italian concerns.