SOME BATTLEFIELD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 167, 21 December 1914, Page 5

SOME BATTLEFIELD

IMPRESSIONS. I HUMANITY IX THE LINES. Times and Sydney Sun Services, Received 20, 5.5 p.m. London, December 10. An officer writes that he does not believe there is a man living who, when first interviewing an 11-inch shell, isn't ipink with funk, but after the first ten ho gets quite used to them. He adds: '"There isn't out here that insensate hatred one hears about. We are out to kill, but when the battle's over the splendid universal sohlic.'-spirit comes over all. I saw the most uncouth man in my com. puny place a cross on the grave of an unknown German." NEWS FOR THE GERMANS. Times and .Sydney Sun Services. London, December IS. The Press Bureau reports that as eye-witness says that the news of the destruction of the German cruisers in the. Atlantic w-as communicated to the enemy's trenches by means of a brickbat, round which the message was wrap- ' pod, the best thrower hurling it towards ' the enemy. The following day the news of the sinking of the Xurnberg was ■ transmitted to the Geniians l>y means of | a signboard. Both bulletins were re- f ceived in silence. A FRENCH PROPHETESS. PREDICTS EXD OF THE WAR. London, December 18. 'Madame de Thebes, the Paris prophet, ess, describes the year 1015 as full of tumults and splendors. The war should end between March and July. Italy will draw the sword, and Germany will be torn to pieces by revolution. SOME MORE "SUCCESSES." Received 20, 12.10 a.m. London, December 10. A Berlin official message states that "the enemy made a number of attacks on Nicuport and Bixschute, and north of La Basse. Fighting continues west of Lens and Noyon, and cast of Albert, where attacks were repulsed. "The pursuit continues in Poland." HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. The High Commissioner reports: Paris reports progrtss in Belgium, fill counter-attacks of the enemy failing. In the region of Arras a vigorous offensive was made. The Frenc-h captured several trenches in the neighborhood of La Bassee. At Blangy they carried the front over a distance of a kilometre, capturing nearly all the trendies of the enemy's first line. At Tracy-le-Yal, on the. tiisne, and in the champagne districts, our heavy artillery liaef a distinct advantage over the enemy. In the Ar_ gonne district the Germans blew up one trench north of Four-de-Paris, and also at St. Hubert. Infantry attacks were repulsed.