WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1916, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

FURTHER PROGRESS. GERMANS REPULSED. London, August 28, General Sir Douglas Haig reports: W« have, made .some progress oast of DoI« villo Wood. There is great artillery activity iu Delville Wood and north o! I.'ozieres. Paris, August 28. A French communique says: Gin grenadiers easily repulsed many German attempts against tlie .position before, Floury. HEAVY ARTILLERY WORK< AEROPLANES CAUGHT IN A STORAf . , Received August 29, 8.45 p.m. London, August 26'. General Sir Douglas Haig reportß! iherc i s mutual heavy artillery activity. A heavy storm overtook eight Briton, aeroplanes, and Ave have not yet re* (aimed. GERMAN CONCOCTIONS* THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED. Received August 29, 9.50 p.m. London, August 29. Military authorities point out the re« markable German concoctions for local and neutral consumption regarding progress on the West front. An instance in point is the Australian and English advance at Pozieres on- the 4th, and furthered on the !)tJi. The German report did not mention the former idranee, and regarding the second advance »ported that imaginary British ittacks were repulsed. Weeks later, the Germans refer casually to the lost places n Allied possession, pretending fh*y vrere never held nor lost bv the Ger« mans.

SICKNESS AMONG THE ENEMY. NO PRISONERS TO BE TAKEN.- - ' Received August 29, 10.45 p.m. London, August 2ft. t A icttor, written by a German in th< Umteenth Army Corps, picked up on the Sommc, states that the whole qorpg lire sWiring. from dysentery as b result • of eight days mid night fighting without ' hot 'food, and being parched with thirst In the daytime. The whole battlefield is full of the dead. We are ordered, 'lot to take any prisoners, but to'kill ihem all with the bayonet. The writer adds: "That would not be so bad, but) the English \Uo take prisoners. What then?" _"- l. ; "ALL FAILED." London, <A'ugttrt 28. A German communique? says that th€j English attacks at Thiepval, Mouqueb Farm ; Delville Wood, and Givenchy, «ndj the French storming attacks at Maui* pas and Clery failed. "" ' K . AN UNRELIABLE ESTIMATfe. New York, August £9. J. M. Beck, ex-Assistant American At> tovney-Oeneral, has returned from'Eng*' land. He says that in one week ofl the Somine offensive the Anglo-FrencM-casualties were 40,000. ■•