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IN THE WEST.

BEHIND THE LINES. GERMAN ACTIVITY. Times and Sydney Sun ,'Jervices. London, June 19. The Times' correspondent at Amsterdam reports the arrival of numerous wounded and frequent burials, which indicate that the Germans' recent attack on Hooge cost them dear. Prisoners are stating that the British artillery made great gaps in their lines. The Germans , massed more than 120.000 men at Zonncbeke, Gheluvelt, and on the Comines Canal, who were mainly derived from the Belgian occupation force. Companies of Russians and civilian prisoners have been working for months past carting sand and gravel to the front between Menin, the Comines Canal, Roulers, and Bruges, and Belgian factories have been incessantly producing bags and barbed wire. Trnins are continuously carrying timber to the Ypres front for the army, and military laborers are digging, building, sawing, and boring water wells.

Large numbers" of new young troops have been trained at various points in South Belgium. Lille. Roubalx and Turcoing are strictly isolated, ajid frequent arrests are mad'.; as a result,of the tremendous explosion of a munitions depot in Lille, which the Germans assert was due to an English ,p!ofc. The terrific report shook houses and smashed windows for miles, opened the "Tound at various places, and demolished buildings.

GERMAN LOSSES AT VERDUN OVER 400.000. London, June I.). A semi-official estimate,, based on prisoners' statements and documentary evijdcnce, puts the German losses at Verdun to the end of May at 415,000. .

A BOMBING EXPEDITION'. Paris, June 19. A communique says: A German attack northward of Hill 321 was repulsed. Our air squadron dropped fll heavy projectiles on the barracks and railway station at Vouziers, where movements of trains were reported. Two aviators collided at Pantin 6000 feet up. The machines crashed to the ground, but both aviators miraculously escaped uninjured.

THE VERDUN ASSAULT.

A DISMAL FAILURE.

NEARLY 000,000 GERMANS

ENGAGED

Times and Sydney Run Services. Received June 20, f1.5 p.m. London, Juno 19,

Mr. H. Warner Allen, reviewing the struggle i\t Verdun, says that .iftcr the failure of the great assault, whereby it | was hoped to produce a decisive effect, bringing demoralisation and revolutions in France, the Hermans have settled slowly to a methodical wcaring-away of the French defences. Their heavy artillery work at Verdun represents the highest conceivable effort of o great manufacturing country, but the German press has now changed its tune, declaring that though Verdun i? not taken, France has has been bled white. On the other hand, says Mr Allen the French have continuously relieved and rested their Verdun troops. The Germans have not attempted to economise, and they have drawn every man available from the depots, heavily draining the new contingent of the age (iE twenty. Altogether 30J divisions, totalling about RSO.OOO men, were hurled at Verdun, representing half the German forces that were available in rYance, but the Hermans failed to capture the fortress, to demoralise France, or to interfere with the Allies' plans.

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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1916, Page 5

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IN THE WEST. Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1916, Page 5

IN THE WEST. Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1916, Page 5

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