IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1916, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

1. ; i WINTER WARFARE. I _, • GERMANS SUFFERING. DREAD OF THE CANADIANS, Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Jan. IS, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 17. Correspondents at British headquarters in France agree that the winter warfare is ceaselessly reducing the enemy. Our cutting-out expeditions, mostly bombing parties, are numerous, and every keen subaltern is anxious to lead the restive men across the dead ground. The Canadians are specially good, perhaps .because they are trained trappers. The Germans dread these parties, lighting up, on moonless nights, flares and star shells. Since Loos the German have suffered casualties equal to several battles, through the superiority of our shelling and the adventurouspees of our men.

BELGIAN ATROCITIES. A : PONTIFICAL COMMISSION. Reecived Jan. 18, 5.40 p.m. Rome, Jan. 17. Tlie first fruits of Cardinal Mercier's visit to the Pope is that the Pope consents to the conduct of an independent and impartial investigation into German atrocities in Belgium, in order to arrive at a Pontifical conclusion. Cardinal Mercier states that German bishops have accepted the inquiry, provided that the iPope selecta the entire Commission. , '