WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 June 1918, Page 6

WESTERN FRONT.

I THE BRUTAL HOW MORE BUTCHERY. London, June 23. M. Jodin, in the Arne Beige ("Belgian Soul"), the periodical secretly published in Belgium, described the sequel to the trial of many civilians at Charleroi. The eentences were not announced to 19 condemned men, but their families were summoned by telegraph and informed that six would be shot the next morning. Perhaps their relative might Oe the one! They vainly implored to be allowed to know the truth and to be allowed to visit the prisoners. They wept and lamented. The butchers desired the cells to echo with the sobs and praverg of all connected, directly or indirectly, with the sentences, and that they should be compelled to suffer while awaiting the morning's bloodshed. Wives and children stood all night at the prison gates, between infinite despair and senseless hopeDawn brought certainty. Tho fusilade did its work, and only then were the | names of the six announced. —Aus.-N.Z. I CsJble Assoc. | GERMAN AIRMEN'. USING POISONED BULLETS. New York, June 2J. The Sim's correspondent at the French front reports that Allied aviators slightly wounded by bullets in air fights have died within 24 hours. Circumstances indicate that German flyers use poisoned bullets. Hospital surgeons support the suspicion. British and French aviators declare that since the German aviators have been losing heavily they have adopted , foul tactics. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. AMERICA'S CONTRIBUTION. Washington, June 23. Nine hundred thousand United States troops have been despatched to France, of whom CO per cent, are fighters.—Aus.N.Z Cable Assoc. ! LOCAL ATTACKS. I London, June 23 (2.10 a.m.). 1 Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We completely repulsed a strong local attack I which was delivered after a heavy bom- [ bardment, in the evening, westward of j Merris. We took a number of prison- ' «rs in successful raids in the neighborI hood of MorlancQurt, and at Bucquoy. I Ther* i» actrve artillery firo in the neighborhood of Aveluy Wood.—Aus.J N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. { COLORS FOR POLISH DIVISION. 1 Paris, June 23. M- Poincare presented colors to a Polish division on the West front which consists of vounteers who come largely from America.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. I