IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1915, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

A DAILY BULLETIN. NOW TO BE ISSUED. Received Dec. 10, 5.5 pjn. London, Dec. 9. In the House of Commons, Sir John Simon said that in order to give more news from the West front a daily communique will be issued in future. BOUND FOR ALSACE. MORE REDfFORCEMENTS. Dec. 9. Owing to heavy movements of German troops towards 'Alsace, the SwissGerman frontier has been closed and the civil population of Altkirch ordered to abandon the city. EXPLOSION AT A PORT. Amsterdam, Dec. 9. An explosion destroyed the Cognele Fort at Namur. Eighty German soldiers are. reported to have i>een killed. YSER INUNDATED. Times and Sydney, Sun Services. London, Djec. 9. The Germans have abandoned numerous advanced works on the Yser owing to new Belgian inundations. FRENCH SUCCESSES. Wellington, Dec. 10. The High Commissioner reports, under date London, December 9, 6.1S p.m.:— In Champagne, in the course of the night, our artillery continued to bombard the German positions, destroying the munitions depot south of St. Souplet. The French counter-attack east of Butte-de-Souain has continued to hurl back the enemy, who now only holds a portion of an advanced trench, where he is unable to establish himself. In the Argonne the French successfully exploded two mines in the region of High Chevauchee. ,