WESTERN, FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1915, Page 3

WESTERN, FRONT.

. AX UNEVENTFUL WEEK. London, Jnl\; 23. The eyewitness at headquarters reports that the week ending July IS was uneventful. Some Germans waved flags on a section informing us that they, were Saxons. Possibly they realise the different light in which we regard Saxons and Prussians. At another point our men heard calls for help in English, and replied with rifle fire. Then they heard the words "Damned Scotchmen. 1 ' July 14 was the French National Fete Day. In hundreds of towns small processions to the cemeteries placed wreat-iis on the graves of British, Belgians and French.

Franco is about to supply men in the ' trenches with a special helmet of heavy steel of great resisting power. The walls protecting the skull are very thick. Jts weight prevents its use in open 'warfare. It is considered it will considerably reduce trench mortality, which is largely due to head wounds. At present it is not proposed to supply breastplates for the infantry, but experts eousidei\that the continuance of trench warfare will lead to bomb-thrower.; and wire-cutters being more heavily armored than the knights who fought at Agincourt. Paris, July 23. The Matin states that the Germans have arrested Canon Vraucken, Cardinal Jlercier's secretary, as the- alleged leader in a big plot discovered in Belgium. Amsterdam, July 23. The Germans at Brussels are offering £SOO for information respecting a private wireless station, for which they have Taiuly searched for nine months. It is known that it has revealed much war news which the Germans were anxious to conceal from the Belgians. All German soldiers on leave have been ordered to rejoin immediately. During a recent air raid in tlio neighborhood of Brussels a bomb destroyed the German meteorological post, whence weather reports were transmitted to the Zeppelin hangars. It contained many important instruments. Paris, July 2:!. A communique states: We occupied a portion* an enemy trench at Bagatelle, altering the front to our advantage. Our infantry and artillery repulsed a strong enemy roconnaisancc, supported l>y artillery, in the region of Arracourt. The enemy; heavily 'bombarded positions on the crests of the Lingc-liarrcncopf line. The enemy momentarily penetrated our lines, but was driven out by an energetic counterattack.