IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

POSITION UNCHANGED. S\R JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT. London, Oct. 27. Sir John French says that since the last report the situation on our front is unchanged. Mining activity on both sides has had unimportant results. The enemy's artillery has been active east of Ypre? and south of the La Bassee Canal. Our reply was effective.

A HERO OF LOOS

AWARDED THE V.C. Received Oct. 29, 8.35 p.m. London, Oct. 28. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Lanec-Sergt. Oliver Brooks, of the Third Coldstream Guards, for most conspicuous bravery at Loos. When a of the enemy captured two 'hundred strong party of the enemy taptured two hundred yards of trenches, Brooks, on his own initiative, led a party of bombers and regained the lost ground, midst a hail of bombs.

FRENCH REPORT,

INTENSE ARTILLERY ACTIONS. Received Oct. 29, 9.5 p.m. Paris, Oct. 29. A convmuniuc states that there are prolonged artillery actions on the Het-sas-Strcmstrao front, and also at Bois-en-Ifache, and in the region of ilochvincourt.

RUPPRECHT'S BLAST,

HIS BATTALIONS DECIMATED AT LOOS. Received Oct. 30, 8.40 ajn. London, Oct. 29. Paris correspondents state that in order to effect the recapture of Loos Prince Ruppreeht hurled twenty-three battalions into the assault on October 8.

-All were decimated in front of the British and French trenches, and the German dead are estimated at t.n thousand.

ARRAIGNS HIS COUNTRYMEN

BRUTALITY OP GERMAN OFFICERS. Received Oct. 30, 12.40 a.m. London, Oct. 29. Extracts published from the diary of Private Becker, who was a professor of Latin at the Bonn Gymnasium, testify to the brutalities of German officers {towards the soldiers. Becker states that both on the Russian and Westernfronts the men were badly fed and uncared for, while the officers fared well.

He docs not disguise the fact that during attacks officers disappear until danger is past. A GERMAN-HUSH BRIGADE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Oct. 23. Papers smuggled from Germany detail a plot to enrol Irish prisoners in a Geij-man-Irish brigade.