The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1915, Page 6

The Western Front

GERMAN PRINCE'S VIEWS. CLAIMS GERMANS ARE LXiiROKKX. Received July 1, 1-2.25 a.m. 'New York. July ."(I. Prince Rupprceht, in an ijitl-i-. ii-'w v. .tii a. Tillies correspondent, referring to i !mBavarians smashing the Russians, ~aid: "They were the hammer and J onlv the anvil. Here m\( job is to hold out." The French, he said, had used three or four million shells in their attack on his army for six weeks. General Joffie's only hope of success would have been a. break, but throughout the llavarian line is unbroken at a single point, lie estimated the French hisses at sixty thousand during that period. FRENCH REGAIN POSITIONS.

LITTLE ACTIVITY AT THE FRONT. Keceivcd June 30, 11."20 p.m. Paris, June 30. Official: We recaptured on Tuesday all the positions we previously occupied east of Metzeval. Matters are quiet elsewhere. FRENCH .REPRISALS.

Paris, June 20. The iXti Germany has refused to supply tVnamcs of persons detained in the occiifcd French and Belgian ten-itory, Viam-e, \, s derided to refuse information concerting German prisoners and wounded men «id not to allow them to correspond. FRENCH MAKE PROGRKK Paris, Jim 20. A communique states: The ii/antry progressed from tiie sunken nad at Angres to Ahlain. There is .c-e.-aiint fighting at Bagatelle, in which the air torpedo and grenades are prouinent. , BELGIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE. London, June 29. Mr. Meßride, Agent-General for Victoria, has joined the executive of the National Committee of Relief in Belgium as representative of tiie self-govern-ing dominions. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. Wellington, June 30. Tile High Commissioner reports under date London, Julie 20, 5.10 p.m.:— In the Argonne there was incessant fighting at Bagatelle with hand-bombs and grenades. In the Vosges a German attack momentarily made us lose our advanced posts on the slopes east of Metzeral, but an immediate counterattack gained part of the ground lost.