WESTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 August 1917, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

THE WAR IN FLANDERS. TO DECIDE GERMANY’S FATE. Received 9.10 a.m. ZURICH, August 8 The Vossisehe Zeituug says that Germany’s fate is being decided in Flanders. An English base there would enable enemy air squadrons to annihilate our industrial basin and drive Germany (completely from the seas. German industry would be completely at their mercy, therefore we must hold our positions between the sea and the Lys, or we lose the war, GERMANS ACCUMULATING GUNS. BEHIND THE FLANDERS FRONT. Received 9.10 a.m. PARIS, August 8. Marcel Hutin states that the Germans have reorganised their troops in the rear of the Flanders front, and have accumulated more heavy batteries with the prospect of renewed big fighting_ SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS. ENEMY ARTILLERY IS ACTIVE.

Received 9.10 a.m. LONDON, August 8

Sir Douglas Haig reports a successful raid, yesterday evening, near. Lombaertzyde. The enemy’s artillery is active eastward and northward of Ypres, particularly in the neighbourhood of Westhoeke and the Ypres-Staden railway. WESTERN- ARTILLERY DUELS. Received 11.10 LONDON, August 8. A French communique reports a marked reciprocal activity last night on most of the Aisne front. Our fire repulsed enemy detachments east of Vauxaillon and on the west Californian plateau that were attempting to approach our lines. SOUTH AFRICA. FURTHER BRITISH SUCCESS. LONDON, August 7. East Africa official. —After occupying the enemy’s advanced positions south-west of Lindi, we indecisively attacked the main positions on the Mihumsia. There was severe fighting with co7isidorable losses on both sides. We reached the Insindy river in the Kilwa area, pressing back the enemy towards Mahenge. A strong force is beingengaged southward thereof.

MUTINY AT ANTWERP. 300 GERMANS THROW DOWN RIFLES. AMSTERDAM, August 8. A frontier report to the “ Tclegraaf ’ ’ confirms the rumours of a mutiny by 300 German troops at Antwerp. They threw down their rifles when ordered to the Ypres front, but were quietly over-powered and taken to barracks handcuffed.

6 B E K o £. VENEZELIST .PARLIAMENT. Received 8.45 a.m. ATHENS, August 8. At the first sitting of the Vcnizelist Parlaiment, Yenizelos, replying to a petition from Deputies of the Northern Epirus, for an adminstrative chamber, said, the union of Epirus with the Motherland in the near future was a foregone conclusion. IN CANADA CANADA’S WAR BILL. JULY ENLISTMENTS SLACK. Received 8.45 a.m. OTTAWA, August 8. The Canadian Government’s war expenditure, averaged £170,000 daily. Canada is also providing five million monthly to purchase munitions. July enlistments reached the low mark of 4200. STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. BRITISH LABOUR .VIEWS. LONDON, August 7.

The Parliamentary committee of the ■wan did not admit of comproise. except on the basis of an inconclusive peace. The Gorman idol must be shattered Mr. Henderson and others failed to realise that they cannot meet enemy representatives -without effecting a compromise. Mr. O’Grad}', M.P.. presiding- over the General Federation of Labourers, declared that the later issues of the Trade Union Congress, resolved, subject to the Labour party and Trade Union Congress approval, that Britain should be represented at the Stockholm Conference.