Western Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 150, 1 December 1914, Page 5

Western Campaign

OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. ALLIES MAKE APPRECIABLE PROGRESS. GREAT GATHERING OF GERMANS AT ARRAS. ' ENEMY SHORT OF MONEY AND HORSES. Paris, November 29. k communique states that the enemy's cannonade is more active, but he is using little heavy artillery, consequently the artillery duel everywhere is to our advantage. Our infantry captured various points of support north and south of Ypres. The attack of three German regiments north of Arras completely failed. We appreciably progressed at Fay, between the Somme and Chaulncs. Our shells destroyed a gun emplacement. A machine-gun detachment caused the explosion of a battery between Vailly and Bery-au-Buc. We rep.ulsed three attempts to recapture ground at Brandesapt, in the Vosges. It is stated that there are seven hun-. dred thousand Germans in ,the vicinity of Arras, who are preparing to break through. A German ofiicer informed a French manufacturer, >vhose factory he denuded, that he was on a special mission -> seize copper, lead, leather and other aterials and to get money by all possible means. The ofiicer commandeered a large quantity of valuable old furniture which was to be auctioned in Germany.

Times and Sydney, Sun Services. London, November 29.

The Turin newspaper Stampa d(* elares that 18 super-Zeppelins are ready to participate in the attack on Britain in the spring. Each is armed with machine-guns and 50 bombs. Amsterdam, November 29. Many Dutch travellers in Germany have been arrested on suspicion of being British spies. The Germans declare that a British spy office has been established at Rotterdam. Fresh German marines traversed Bruges towards the Yser.

General .- von Bissog has succeeded General von der Goltz as GovernorGeneral of Belgium. The latter is now attached to the Sultan and Turkish headquarters.

London, November 29. The Echo de Paris declares that owing to their inability to secure horses the German cavalry has ceased to exist. INDIANS AT WORK. TREXCIIES RE-CAPTCRED. BLOODY DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE. Received 30, 7.4.i p.m. London, November 30. The Press Bureau furnishes a narrative of an observer with the Indians. He describes the re-capture of some trenches', possession of which was involved in the general scheme of defence.v_l.YVo attacks were made in the daytime of the 23rd, but were foiled. When an armv corps reserve arrived, the British and Indian regiments,- at 10.30 at night, began a final assault, and recovered the trenches by 6 o'clock next morning, after nearly 24 hours' bloody struggle. We captured three officers and 97 men, but our losses were distressing. GERMAN EXODUS CONFIRMED. FOUR ARMY CORPS GONE. Received 30, 7.45 p.m. London, November 30. Router's Paris correspondent says it is estimated that the Gorman's have withdrawn four army corps from Belgium, and sent them to Poland, replacing them by old and young volunteers and Landsturmers. AVENGING ROYAL BLOOD. DISASTER LEADS TO DISASTER. Received 30, 7.45 p.m. London, November 30. French newspapers state that the accident to the Kaiser's son in August was due to a French shell shattering his car in the vicinity of Craonne. The Germans, eager for vengeance, opened a general attack on the French line, with the result that they lost several German trenches. GERMANS STILL FIGHT FOR THE COAST. PREPARED FOR WEEKS OF ASSAULT. Times and Sydney Sun -Services. Received 30, s.]"i p.m. London, November 2!). A colonel captured in Belgium declared that if the Germans fail to break through to the. coast before the 29th December, they will retreat to the second line of defence in Belgium. EVENTFUL MINOR DEEDS.

BRITISHERS' ITNFLTXCTTTXCc VIALOR. ; A FOREST RAZED. London, November 30. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Calais states that, although the "week lias been comparatively uneventful, hundreds haw been killed in skirmishes and minor operation, which the official reports ignore. Amongst these was the action of the British in razing the largest forest at Ypres, which had afforded excellent cover to the Germans attacking our itrenches. The task demanded unflinching valor, the volunteers exceeding requirements. After hard fighting, 'cleverly confined to the forest itself, the Germans were expelled from their carefully-con' structed entrenchments, losing ' 1000 killed daily throughout (ihe week. The German guns have largely assisted iD I demolishing the forest. • . -

KINGS OF THE WAR,

SUCCESS OF ALLIES AEROPLANES. Received 1, 1.5 a.m. Amsterdam, November 30. Five Allied aeroplanes bombarded the military stores at Ghent, with auidi advantage. Observers declare that latterly the Allies' airmen have dominated the air' in Belgium. ALLIED LINE IMPREGNABLE. EX-NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. Received 1, 1.5 a.m. London, November .10. The latest telegrams indicate that the Allied line is oiow believed to be impregnable. Captain MacDougall, aide-de-camp in New Zealand in 1913, was killed at the front.