WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

INTENSE CANNONADING IN BELGIUM. EFFECT FELT ACROSS THE CHAaIm-X. , Received July Sn. |:V> p.m. London, -'uly ;;o. Tlip.ui'li.iwl. i.iy-t (In- heavy i'i nnniiou, tiring m Ileluium .>.i. ii'-iirci nt the -..ma-east (-Must, (hums. The eanay, tin! li'.tatiot" being so grea. that llie f:ii-in trembled and window? rattled. Firing ..i.ntinaej ".II the morning. OFFICIAL REPORTS. Ans. .in.! X.7. Cable As-oe. and Reuter. Uecci.e..! July 30, 10 p.m. Loudon, Julv 29. Sir Pougla.. Ilaig reports: There L it.Uji-i.- ;•■. i-j..| r,-iivit\. wiili sucecssi'i:: i',: : .~ug and photographic results. We it' tied tliii-i.i'ii menu inabilities am 1 ''■'" '•;'.Jl-;«i:!>.. Thirteen of our machine:, are mis .nn,-.

A Fn-i.-li ii.MiiMiiiqi;'.- say?: There i; a most vi;'..;'.'i;. artillery struggle in the t'eniy-t'i-aoiiiie region and on the left of Hie .dense. A German altaek at Hurte■'Ut! was loiiipUtely irustrated. RAIDS AM) UOMISARDMENTS. Loniioii. Julv 2!). Vir Douglas IT:,!- reports: —We carried out raids last night norlli-we.-t of lipeny, ~,utli-e.ist of Hav-i-iniioiirt. He.-t of Fi,Titninedei7.-Cro|i-!'lli's, and near FW-ttr'mix. V.'e entered a position near Ypri*. Wo repulsed raiders south-east of Ma.-.slnes. Paris. July 29. Tlie Petit Journal correspondent a< the I'.ritis'u front said that tho German statement that the bombardment extend, ir-'in the sea to the Lva partly conceals (1,, intth. The artillery action ..-really exceeds, tiic-e limits. The correspondent witnessed as yioient a bombardment near Lens.

Kneiny aeroplanes unsuccessfully attempted to reach the city on Saturday nistlit. Explosions were heard at Versailles, which were believed to be due to Ijomba dropped in the open country. Friday's raid similarly was not serious; though b.mb-. fell in an important ''l'ea s 'ithv.oid of Paris there war no less of hie. GERMANS BOMB A HttSPITAL. Paris. July 29. The late.-l example of German brutality is that an aeroplane deliberately dropped bombs on the hospital at -'ou-diery-sur-Yesle, despite the fact that the airmail inu-f have clearly seen the Red Oro-scs. Two doctors, a chemist and nurse were killed and others injured.

FRENCH SUCCESSES. London, July '23. A Freieh comirmnii|ue says: A \inlent enemy attach vc-t of llurtehise, on a lioiit'o,' 1,00 iiictri-. collapsed, and :;u!>--e.pieHtiv our infantry attacked between llurtebise ai.d Labaioi-selles, profrreasinu' at all points, especially in the Monu nient di-trict. 'iiie enemy atu-mpt to recapture tr.-iches betveen Avocourt Wood and 1111 l :;■>> failed, -w it.li heavy looses. AIR RAIDERS FAIL. Paris, July 29. The- raiders did not succeed in reaching the city. FRANCO-BRITISH CAPTURES. Paris, July 29. Franco- I 'ritish captures in the third vear of the war on the west front are: ':!.v>!| idticer-. Km,oo men. MS heavy | liehl guns, 7* trench mortars, and - iiJOO machine guns.

HUN VENGEANCE. Amsterdam, July 29. Le-, Vouvcllcs nates that the German ■< shot seven Relpians in Lici,o on T.,1-,- ]■' incli'din" a commissioner of police and a priest The latter was three times starved for three days to try to force him to betray his comrades. lIIKDIONHUWS STRATEGY. Jt is probable that Hindenburg's buc-,.-s exceeds hU most sanguine anti- , i .t-,,,1 though bia calculations were based'upon very full informa- •„'..' , f tle> unstable condition of Russian ■ lUplii..'. Where he may Vive c.ibitec is the possibility that h.s olleusiv, :n:iv proio the most radical cure for tin' 'ii'istpbilitv. Apart from that, he Vis\he chance, oi making sains of the '„r,.itest local value, if not of winning Vc.-e- d.v-isivt of the war. The Pais--„'"oLinia-ii:ni front runs from the south . m-..1 th"'lo«'er reaches of the Danube, t he Seivih, Pntna. and Trotus Val- .'!., and Ounce northward along the i '.i,i',-,Miia»s to the neighborhood of the ! ' nni'a I'a-. The whole of this line

ii-' threatened with being rolled up. <T! , ' lie- eNir.-inn demoralisation de- ! . Jin ii- cables appear* to extend il'l'iv'tr. portions of the leusy.an front. | v ..tUw-reu-:.mi.iSl'Ortinna : yiHl)»«™ : llielkd to ret.iie in conformity as tlieo ~( , l ks .-.re turned by the enemy's adv:ulCe through the saps already made. The Xu-tro-'lerman advance astride the Dnieper leads them down towards the t,-■•ir-bi.i.i frontier and O.ernowitz. rVo.w Siaiii-lau. whi-.-li ba* just been ,-vit. note!, (o CzernowiU is 70 miles, •ui'd M th'e present rate of progress the i-.ttev p'ace 'u.av be oapv.rcd in about a ycc'" unless t.lie Russian array recovers ;t= morale somewhat. Tf Czentowitz fall" the whole of Rukowina will have. been recaptured by the enemy, and all I'he Russo-Roumanian positions to the U'frv.tt.war.l will be threatened bv the rear. There ii"ed be little doubt that it is :i( that TThwlenburg is aiminpr, ,nd wh-i the psyclmb«rienl moment some- Makeusen will take the offensive. If tbe loiiibiiied movements are success- ! ful. the enemy will capture the whole of '>!'.;'ov'v.i. with its resources, and sc(.•ire a sherter Iront on their south flank, ....vre'd by the formidable barrier of the l'ruth. In Iced, if demoralisation continue, iimo'i-r the Russians, Mackensen nine pu-h on to Ude-s a . Still, those wliii have some acquaintance with niilitiuv hi-torv. and know the lightning ciiai-'e-; which ni'-bow the denioral- ; i=e',l "army of to-day becomes the victories army of to-morrow—will not be unduly in the Dunedin Star.