IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

THE HORRORS OF WAR. ON ARTOTS BATTLEFIELD. Received Nov. IS, !).3;"> p.m. London, Nov. 17. Air Cibbs. writing to the Daily Chronicle says: The battlefield at Arlois was the most awful 1 have seen in the grim suggestiveness of war at its worst. Tin* very earth is white with blotches of clay, ami is pockmarked by innumerable shell-craters. It is now truly a dead ground. Everywhere are fragments of broken weapons and shells piled up like bottles on a rubbish heap. Worse things lie about: fragments of human bodies and half-buried corpses. Poor tragic relics of mutilated men, they lie in waterpools clutching the mud, and one turns away cold from the bundles of rags and bones protruding from the broken sandbags. Places that once were German shelters ale now wrecked beyond description—a mass 0! chair-;, broken mirrors, and shattered bones. ' GHASTLY SIGHTS. A VIVID PICTURE. "This was the work of eleven hundred French guns and three hundred thousand shells, which were flung over the countryside before the infantry attack was made, and of the German guns which battered Notre. Diime de Lurette since the days of the French victory and sacrifice. "The village of Ablain is a ghastly place, and a hideous proof of the strife. Twisted iron is mingled with boots, helmets, furniture, and perambulators. Jn one German dug-out 1 found a splendid piano. When returning I saw a fearful sight of limping men with bloodstained bandages, and the stark figure of a French soldier being wheeled to a stretcher completed the, picture of ,thu awful horror and ruin of war."

THE TYRANTS' METHOD. ANOTHER PLEDGE BROKEN. Amsterdam, Nov. 17. On the pretext of the recurrence of air raids, and that information was supplied to the enemy locally, the 04crinan authorities announce the quartering o[ troops upon the inhabitants of Brussels. The proclamation has withdrawn the pledge against the quartering of troops given in 1914 in return for the city's payment of fifteen million francs.