IN THE WEST

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST

STRIKE AT MONS. RIOTS AT CHARLEROI. a .Received August 0, 9 p.m. Havre, August 'A. There are rumors that Mons coalininers have struete, apd in a collision with the troops several miners were woundejj and two Germans killed. Residents at Cl#rleroi rioted, looting the shops, in consequence of the famine ptfees of food. Reinforcements of the 'Vftiulaturin are hurrying to both.towns. . STRICKEN BELGIUM. A PASSIOXATE APPEAL. . London, August (i. Mr. (!.'K. Chesterton, writing in the Jaily Telegraph, renews the appeal for iiejgiifns who are remaining in their stricken country. He says that Belgium died for Europe, and her sacrifice is i«coCeeiV»b!e amoiy; pagans, and unique even among Christians. Unless ive do a great deal more it way be said that wc left it to their butchers themselves to- see that their victim nation did not bleed to death. BAD WEATHER. HAMPERS 'OPERATIONS. Received August 0, 7.35 p.m. Amsterdam, August fi. fi»d weather has- increased the difficulties'of the Allies in the north of France. Frequent German efforti between Ypres and Arra< have been resultl3S>, but the Allies' trenches have suffered frcm the heavy artillery. (ferman lostes formidable. In one instance, out oi six hundred Bavarians who took part in an attack upon Xcu\ill», 347 were killed. The Eritish guns on Wednesday dispersed an important force, which was massing on the main lead, preparatory to attacks. „.. XO HINT TO THE ATXTBS. 1* "', Petrograd., August 5. llThc igv'Vftvp jueniea'that the Goyijwied an.'c/.f iejal note of any k'in'l regaining the desirability of ■uj' Allied V.ffep'-ive iu the west.

ECHO OF THE MARNE. EFFECT OF FRENCH EXPLOSIVES. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received August 6, 5.25 p.m. London, August 5. Miitary authorities, after the battle of the Marne, were supplied with strange stories of the aspect of numbers of German corpses, remaining upright, shouldering rifles, and with pipes in their mouths. The French scientist, M. Generaroux, has now communicated with the Academy of Medicine, stating that tiic phenomena was due to the efficacy of French explosives. Within a fifteen yards' radius of the explosion the displacement of air is so intense that it causes distension of the blood vessels and arteries, bursting these organs and inducing sudden death.

AT BANDESAPT. 'i- • A SMART ENGAGEMENT. Paris, August 5. The French official eye-witness, describing the French victories at Bandesapt, cabled on July 25, states that the Germans at dawn on the 16th bombarded with heavy calibre shells the positions on Hill <J27. At Fontelle the violent cannonade lasted the wholo day, and at dusk the enemy's infantry was hurled back at four different points. The attacks debouched from the direction of Launois. One tried to pass unseen through a little wood which had been considerably opened to daylight by the bombardment. The wood covered the western slopes of Hill G2", and our fire prevented the Germans emerging beyond the margin. ENEMY'S COMPLETE DEFEAT. FRENCH CAPTURE THE'VILLAGE. The other attacks had as their objective our barricade on the LaunoisMoveumoutter road. Our infantry fire swept the enemy, who were unable to proceed. The 'enemy columns from Laitre hurled themselves on our artillery, and they simultaneously covered the attacking columns with fire. The columns eddied and swarmed, and then' disappeared. The enemy's lines were dislocated, and midst the noise of bursting shells and the crackle of machine-guns could be heard the cries of the wounded as they crawled away in darkness. The enemy re-formed again and attacked, but their ranks once more thinned and quickly fell back in disorder.

Two enemy battalions were engaged. Their defeat was complete. On July 24th we attacked and carried all the enemy works west of Laimois, gaining possession o[ the first house in the village. We prisonered the garrison, and we now hold half the village. We captured 11 officers, 825 men, eight machine-guns and a large quantity of ammunition.

KILLED IN ACTION. ,

AUSTRALIA'S ''FIGHTING PARSOX."' Received August 0, 10.55 p.m. London, August fl. Lieutenant Hulton Sims has been\ killed while leading his company in Flanders. He belonged to the Bush Brotherhood, in (Queensland, where he was known as "the Fighting Paisou.' He enlisted as a private in the Bedfords, and subsequently obtained a commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Regiment. ON VOSGES HEIGHTS. FIERCE COXTIXUOUS FIGHTING. Received August ti, 9.20 p.m. Paris, August 0. . Official: Desperate actions are taking place on the Vosges heights dominating the Feeht, especially at the Sc'hratz.Mannela Pass, where the enemy capiured a blockhouse, but were driven out by an immediate counter-attack. Our curtain of shrapnel inflicted very heavy losses. , FREXCH OFFICIAL. REPORT. Paris, August 5. A communique states: The enemy' continuously and violently bombarded our trenches at Li:;£eko[)f. We retained all our positions, except a portion of a trench on the crest of Linge. There was grenade and petard fighting elsewhere, v -