WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1916, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

STORMY WEATHER. BRITAIN SHOULD RELIEVE FRANCE London, Nov. ]fl. Sir Douglas Haig reports tlmt it is stormy weather and the position is unchanged. Mr. G'arvin, in the Observer, dealing wiUi the iSoninie offensive, states, thai the Hermans have thinned the rest of the fronts, and are concentrating theiv real strength in the rear of the threatened area. England must exhibit gre.itcr mobility and take over more of the French front France has bcrne the bnint for tw.) years; Britain must do so for the remainder of the war. HEARTRENDING SCENES. AN AMERICAN'S DESCRIPTION. London, Nov. 1!). The Chicago News correspondent publishes an interview with an American business man, who describes the heartrending deportation scenes in Belgium. The American Relief Commission has given 100,000 Belgians protection certificates, but this is a small part of tin total subject to impressment. He saw a long train of cattle trucks full of deported men. Many resisted, only to feel the German bayonets. Women fought for their men folk and when the train was departing a hug. l crowd of women and children ran on the line before the locomotive and threw themselves on the rails. The soldiers prised them loose with their bayonets. Frenchmen from the occupied provinces are. forced to work in Belgium to replace the deported Belgians.

PRISONERS NOW 6962. ' BRITISH ON THE ANCRE. ' Jteceivod Nov. 20, 5.20 p.rj London, Nov, in. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: The situation is unchanged. We took on the Ancre on Saturday 772 prisoners, making a total of C9i!2 since the 13th. A VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT. Received Nov. 20, S p.m. London, Nov. 20. A French communique states: There is nothing to report beyond a violent bombardment of the fort and region of IX'uamnont.