The Western Front

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 5

The Western Front

IMPORTANT MOVE OF GERMAN TROOPS. Received .July 8, 1.35 a.m. Amsterdam, July 7. lhe Germans are forwarding very heavy guns over the Belgian railways, and everything indicates that great movements of troops are proceeding. VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACKS. MASSED ATTACKS RESULTLESS. Received July 7, 8. 15 p.m. Paris, July 7. The fighting at Arras has assumed a now character. The Germans commenced a series of violent attacks against two extremities of semi-eircles forming around Souchez, that is against the advance post thrown out; in front of Loretto Hill and against Cabare. trouge. Thero was ferocidus infantrv lighting on the Angres Road, both side's using stakes from the trenches if their bayonets were broken and their cartridges expended. The Germans prevented the threatened occupation of Souehez. TJw German bombardment east of Amiens was not accompanied by infantry attacks, though it was intended to foreshadow attacks. Violent attacks by massed troops resulted in a disproportionate loss of ammunition, as the Frsnah w#r« not deesived.

BRITISH REPULSE ATTACKS. SUCCESS BY THE FRENCH. Reoeived July 7, 8.40 p.m. . Paris, July 7. Official: The British repulsed several counter-attacks south-west of Pilken, inflicting heavy losses, The Germans bombarded Arras, especially the Cathedral, with incendiary shells l . "We recaptured a section of the SouTaii trench on the heighta of the Meuse. Tho enemy counter-attacked, and was caught by machine-guns and curtains of shrapnel, and retired ifl disorder with heavy last