The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 5

The Western Front

ARTILLERY STRUGGLE MORE VIGOROUS. HARD FIGHTING AT GUINCHY. TEMPORARY BRITISH REPULSE. Paris, February i. A communique yesterday states that the artillery struggle lias increased in intensity On both sides. Portions of a German regiment drove back a British post at Guinchy, but the British, by .1 counter-attack, regained the lost ground and progressed beyond and captured some of the enemy's trenches. A whole battalion participated i n the assault -in the trenches mentioned. Our fire broke two attacks, but the third forced an entrance into a trench. A counterattack with bayonets threw the enemy into confusion and only a few escaped. The remainder were killed or captured Our heavy-calibre artillery bombarded Noyon railway station, where the enemy were reprovisioning, causing two explosions. The forest at Nonnenbruch Ims been stubbornly contested, owing to the deposits of potassium salts, valued <it sixty milliards of francs. The deposits have hitherto been in the hands of German capitalists. Times and Sydney Sun Sen-ices. London, February 2. A field artillery officer writes:—"Our worst dangers are when officers are taking observations. The country is so flat that it is absolutely necessary lo get above the level, and we are exposed to tremendous risks and to the chance cf giving away the locality of the observation stations, where the battery commander sits all day with a telephone. The Germans are busy the xvhol" time with telescopes, trying to discover the station, and when it is located th'jy let drive with 'Black Maria's' Before daylight one starts to get to the guns. crawling round hedges and seeking cover, never going the same way twice. On arriving we remain all day. I have a pocket volume of Kipling, but it has not been opened. Life is too strenuous and exciting to contemplate imaginary Bcenes and situations. Everyday incidents far outweigh anything in fiction." BRITISH BAYONET CHARGE. RE-CAPTURES LOST TRENCHES. EVERY GERMAN KILLED. Received 3. 0.15 p.m. London, February 3. (An eye-witness with the Allied forecs says that 600 Germans on the 20th made two attacks between La Bassee Canal and the. Bethune road. The attack on the brickfield in the centre failed, and fifty German dead were left on the field. The attack against the right was temporarily successful, but the British counter-attacked with the bayonet, and every German in the trench was killed. A similar German success occurred close to the Bethune road, but in the counter: attack e%>ry German in the British trench was bayonetted, and an additional 200 dead were left in front of the British line. The. British casualties were slight. Prisoners stated that this was their first engagement. A hundred were killed in the trenches before the attack began. TRAIN LOADS OF GERMAN WOUNDED. Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received 3, 5.15 p.m. London, February 3. Aix-la-Chappelle reports that twenty train-loads of wounded passed eastward during the last three nights, as the result of the fighting at Craonne. "JOY DAY IN BRUSSELS." BELGIANS ELATED AT BRITISH SUCCESSES. GERMAN AND BELGIAN REFUSE TO MIX. Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received 3, 5.15 p.m. London, February 9. A lady returned from Brussels says the arrogance of the Germans, which had become unbearable, had suddenly changed, and it has become known that they have been ordered to placate the population. But their efforts are fruitless. The people hold themselves aloof, and will not converse with the Germans, except to answer questions. They will not remain in cafes with the Germans. The latter endeavor to prevent citizens . from departing, fearing that news will reach the outside world. British and . French newspapers are brought in '•■ secretly. It was "Joy Day in Brussels" 1 when Davies bombed the German bar- '. racks, the Belgians shouting with glee.

FOOD SUPPLIES FROM RUSSIA Received 3, 10.30 p.m. Paris, February 3. Russia has contracted to deliver to France 400,000 tons of wheat and 100,000 tons of sugar.

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