The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 5

The Western Front

ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. SUCCESS NEAR Tilt: GREAT DUNK Received S, 0.50 p.m. Dunkirk, February S. [ 'lhe Franco-Belgians forced a passage between the west of the great dune and the sea, sending a damaging lire from the new position against the enemy's extreme right before Westende. , THE WAR OF GOLD CHESTS. ALLIES' IMPORTANT CO-OPERATION THREE RICHEST COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. Paris, February 7. The three Powers' scheme for joint finance is regarded as a corollary to and as important as the joint declaration on September 5 that the Allies had agr.vd not to conclude peace separately and that all should agree to the peace, terms. It implies the mobilisation of the gold of the three richest countries in Europe in the financial war, which is every whit as important as the military contest. Yesterday's official statement dcclavs that the three Powers have resolved to unite their financial resources equally with 'their military resources, in to prosecute the war to final vi, BRITISH AIRMEN'S EXPLOIT. PROGRESS AT GU|NCIIY. TYPIIOID OUTBREAK AMONG GERMAN SOLDIERS. Amsterdam, February 7. A British aeroplane over Zeebruggc. defying the concentrated fire, suddenly dived and dropped a bomb on a submarine which, after a tcrriffie explosion, sank. The airman escaped. 'I he Allies' progress northwards towards Osftend continues. Paris, February 7. A communique states that the British have captured the brickfield, a kilometre east of Guinchv, which the enemy iias always held hitherto. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 7. Telegrams from the Belgian frontier report tha't there is a severe epidemic .if typhoid in German corps. The sanitary conditions in South Belgium are \ cry bad. Drinking-water is got from r.'vers where corpses have remained for weeks. It is alleged that there are 1 ..'.OOO typhoid cases in Antwerp. An officer writes: "This war is like a game of draughts. We take two trenches and the Germans take one. V/e move and take three, they move and take two, and so on. It is slow but sure." GERMANS MASSACRE WOUNDED. i REPORT OF AN EYE-WITNESS. Received 0, 12.5 a.m. Paris, February 8. A German non-commissioned prisoner I avows that he witnessed in August a I massacre! of twenty wounded Frenchmen by German troops. BOMBARDMENT OF NIEUPORT. AN UNEVENTFUL DAY. Received 8, 10.30 p.m. Paris, February 8. Official.—Except for several small attacks at Nieuport and the bombardment of the northern quarter of Soissons, the operations are uneventful.