IN THE WEST

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST

LEADERS IN THE TRENCHES. GERMAN LINES BOMBED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, August 29.' Films of Lord Kitchener's visit to the French army at the front, shown privately at the War Offifl'ce, disclose the fact that Lord Kitchener actually went to the first line of trenches, and, in company with General Joffre, witnessed an artillery duel at close quarters. Paris, August 20. A communique states:—There' has been a violent hand-to-hand fight at Marie Therese for the possession of B}ine craters. We remain masters. We intensely bombarded .the German trenchand work parties on the whole of the Lorraine front. Grenade and bomb fighting occurred at Metzcral. / Our aeroplanes bombarded the railway station and encampment at Crandwerc and the entrenchments at Moneheutin and Lasce. Amsterdam, August 29. An Allies' aeroplane bombed the German lines at Bixschoote with a hundred bombs, and killed or wounded many of the eccupants of the front trenches.

PROPAGANDA IN HOLLAND. USE OF BELGIAN SECRET DOCUMENTS. Received August 30, 8.55 p.m. Rotterdam, August SO. The German propagandist campaign is meeting with results similar to Count Dernburg's mission to America. The newspapers regard it as a mean action to steal and publish secret documents from the archives of Brussels, and the general opinion is that the campaign has proved the absolute correctness of Belgian diplomacy.