GERMAN DREAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 5

GERMAN DREAMS.

PLAN TO BOMBARD DOVER. (Times and Sydney Sun Servioes.) Received July 7, 7.20 p.m. London, July 0. Paris reports that th# Germans ar« reported to be constructing immense defensive works in Upper Alsace, apparent, ly designed to render their positions practically impregnable, thus liberating troops for an offensive elsewhere. New heavy guns have been brought to Altkireh and Hairybach. An Alsatian declares that the Germans have a second line of fortifications midway betweeu the Vosges and the Rhine, running tho entire length of Alsace. This is defended by 250,000 Landsturm. The Matin believes the German closing of tho Swiss frontier and the rushing up of fresh German troops through Belgium heralds another try to capture Calais and bombard Dover with long range guns in order to send troops in aluminium boats to invade England. A series of attady have been made recently by the GerMhs upon the Allied front, apparently without any particular object, and these efforts are interpreted as preparation for a severe offensive.

SITUATION UNCHANGED. London, July fi. Sir John French says that since his last report the situation is unchanged and the fighting has been mainly tonfined to artillery duels, a feature of which is the enemy's employment of a large number of gas shells, particularly near Ypres. A platoon of infantry, with a machine-gun, advanced and drov« out the few Germans who survived the bombardment. We captured oil Julf (I, on the extreme left north of Ypres, two hundred yards of the enemy's trenches, taking eighty prisoners. Amstordam, July] tf. Th» Telegraaf itatea that immense German reinforcements are expected from the east front. Officers in Brussels declare that Calais must bo taken at all costs. Tho Germans are erecting numerous wooden 'barracks suitable for hospitals, preparatory to a fresh effort. A German communique states: Our airmen bombed the aerodrome at Corcieux, a French camp in the Vosgc3.