IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

BATTLE OF LOOS. HARMSWORTH PRESS CRITICISM. London, Nov. 2. - The Tomes' military correspondent days that the complete history of the Loos attack, which now appears, shows that the cost was nearly 6000 casualties. It remains to be written that the main

attack was successful except at the northernmost point. It only remained ' for the reserves to come to secure the conquests and restore the. position in the north, but there is no mention of the employment of reserves on September 25. The Daily Mail says the impression left Iby Sir John French's dispatch is that a stage in the war has been, reached in which new methods are required. We have found that bravery cannot prevail against the inventions of the deviL thousands of machine-guns, and hundreds of miles of barbed wire. The army in Flanders has been biting on a file, yet it continues the old unsuccessful plans. The Daily Express says the vagueness of the references to the repulse of the 24th and 21 st Divisions inevitably suggest that a great victory was nearly won, but was «nade impossible by blunders and hesitation.

THE AWFUL HUN. A,- SHOCKED EXAMPLE, Amsterdam, Nov. 2: Advice from Antwerp states that thirty German soldiers, refusing to go to the Champagne front, were executed. ' Before .Brackelmans, an architect, was executed, his sister, a nun, applied for- an interview with him. She was asked to wait ten minutes, and was then led before his corpse. He had just been shot.