In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 82, 3 November 1916, Page 6

In the West

HEAVY RAIN FALLING.

“NOTHING TO REPORT.”

Press Assn.—Copyright.—Australia and N.Z. Cable Assn., and Reuter. (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, November 2. General Haig reports heavy rai and nothing to report.

FRENCH FOLLOW UP CAINS.

CALM NIGHT ON MEUSE. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Paris, November 2. < A communique states: Despite persistent bad weather, we followed up the night advantage gained between Les Boenfs and Sailly-SailHsel, and consolidated the ground won in the night. There was a relatively calm night on the Mouse, and nothing to report elsewhere.

ECONOMY IN MUNITIONS.

GERMAN COMMANDERS PROTEST.

neutral Shipping matters.

Press Association—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. London, November 2

French headquarters report that evidence has reached the Intelligence Department that the enemy commanders on the Somme are protesting at the orders to economise in munitions,- and that they disobeyed the secret instructions issued at the end of September, making it appear that the guns are rationed, each being assigned a’certain number of rounds daily.

The Order says: When, despite these instructions, the gulls fire double and treble the fixed quantity for days when the enemy does not attack, it is evident'' that the commanders fail to realise the 'absolute necessity of econoniising. With the present high wastage of material, the provision for renewals and repairs is no longer sufficient. The Order also restricts barrage fire and forbids reprisal fire and the shelling of harmless villages. .The, .Cologne, Gazette, in an inspired telegram from Berlin, foreshadows vvbat if Neutrals failed to resist British oppression more energetically, Germany would demand from the Neutrals most definite guarantees that the cargoes on neutrals vssels are destined for Neutrals and that they shall not be partially or wholly unloaded in Britain.

HUN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

TUBERCULOSIS PROPAGATION. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.30 p.m.) Paris, November 2. Le Martin says that Germany deliberately planned the propagation of tuberculosis among prisoners. A medical eye-witness states that tuberculosis prisoners wer placed in the same huts at Friedrichsfield Camp from other maladiefj Russian prisoners'suffering from typhus were sent toy,Cassel Camp and mixed with the healthy French. Among 10,000 who were sick,, there were 4,000 deaths.