The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 27 February 1915, Page 5

The Western Front

GREAT EFFORT AGAfNST CALAIS. .TO BE HADE SHORTLY. Received 27, 12.5 a.m. Amsterdam, February 26. German officers declare that ,a great effort is to be made against Calais In three weeks' time. The Berliner Tageblatt states that Carpcntier, the boxer, is a wounded prisoner of war. REMARKABLE ARTILLERY FIRE. CAUSES BAVARIANS TO FLEE. WITH HEAVY LOSSES. Received 27. 125 a.m. Paris, February 20. Official: Our success at Leseparges was due to the remarkable artillery fire. An officer of the Eighth Bavarians, who wr.s iak«n prisoner, stated that he was unable to prevent a panic, and that most of his men fled before the intensity of the lire, those remaining being killed. Our gain represented 500 metres of trenches. A« the result of violent bayonet work, 2HO ene-i-v corpses were found in one treirl.. After seven attacks by the enemy lliev r-tired exhausted, losing half their efTix-thes.

GERMANY ROUTED. M. VIVIANI INTERVIEWED. Receive! 26, 10.30 p.m. Paris, Februarv 28. M, Viiani. m an interview pirtdished in the Amer'can Press, declares that the Germans' torrent had been checked, and Germany beaten in the field. It must be implied that the blockade was drawing tighter ro.-rel her. and, deujite her precautions to e.i.i e:i! the truth, her financial .'.:!:! qconm:; - rn"t was complete. GERMANS LEAVING FOR THE WE«T. r.:\""Y-! 26. 0.50 p in. Amsterdam, February 26. Th" publV'tion of casualty in Schlesv.ig is forbidden. Numerous contingents are leaving Liege for Ea-l Prussia and Bukovina. ALLIES' BOMB-DROPPLNG IN FRANCE. Paris, Fbruary 25. A communique states that aviators have thrown sixty bombs on the enemy's railway stations and concentrations in Champagne.