IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. SIR JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT Received Nov. 27, 8 p.m. London, Nov. 27. Sir John French reports:—Our artillery has successfully 'bombarded many portions of the German trenches during the past four days, destroying wire and breaching parapets. The enemy made little reply, though hostile artillery is active northward of Albert, Loos, Pioegsteert, and east of Ypres. The enemy during the evening of the 22nd delivered a heavy bomb attack on a mine crater southward of the Bethune-La Bassee road, but were repulsed. Mining is constant everywhere. Twenty-three aeroplanes on November 25 successfully bombed the German hut encampment eastward of Albert. EXCHANGING TROOPS. KAISER BOUNCING HIS SOLDIERS. NO CHRISTMAS CARDS. Received Nov. 2S, 8 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 27. There are extensive movements of troops from the West towards Serbia. The railway through Freiburg, Ulm, and Augsburg is entirely closed for ordinary traffic. Other movements of troops from Hanover and Cologne towards Belgium are exceptionally widespread. The Prussian War Minister has forbidden soldiers at the front to send Christmas or New Year greetings home, not wishing to give the soldiers an opportunity of expressing tlieir well-known wishes for an early termination of the war. The Kaiser is expected to give a message to the nation, urging people to omit all celebrations and to pass the holidays in working,