ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2661, 5 January 1916, Page 5

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

NEW YEAR'S DAY BOMBARDMENT i By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Paris, January 3. I Official. —A bombardment by the < Field Artillery in the Dunes region 1 started on the Ist. AVe blew up two munitions depots in the. Argonne, and our batteries dispersed the Germans on the road from Avoncourt to Malancourt. ' At Hartmaimswielerkopf, following a violent bombardment, we retired along a front of two hundred metres, south of Rehfelsen. The enemy did not at- , tempt an infantry attack. ATTACK NEAR LA BASSEE. A GERMAN ACCOUNT. Berlin, January 3. A Gorman official message states that troops attacked between La Bassee and Bethune on a wide front. Tho occupants of one enemy trench wero buried by ail explosion of a mine. Somo were shot and the others fled. The French artillery shelled Lutterbach, killing a girl and wounding women and children. ' . HAND-GRENADE ATTACK. REPULSED. BY THE FRENCH. Paris, January 3. Official.—ln the region of Sommepy a German hand-grenade attack was repulsed. . In the Argonne. near l''our de Paris, the German troops fled from their shelters under the fire of th<) French., "75V FRENCHTRENCH CANNON. DAMAGE , ENEMY AVORKS. London, January 3, 4.30, p.m. The High Commissioner reports:—_ In the Argonne, near Four de Paris, there has been efficient lire by French trench cannon on enemy works. Flying Germans, leaving shelter, were taken by the quick tire of the French seventyfives. RAIDS FROM THE AIR. ALLIES TAKING PRECAUTIONS. Paris, January 3. The Allies are taking action to prevent attacks from air. BOMBARDMENT GENERALLondon, January 4, I a.m. The High Commissioner reports:— Bombardment is general on the West front. ' . Soutli of Chaulnes a rovictualhng convoy was dispersed. In tlio Champagne a new grenade attack at West Tahure against our trenches failed. WINTER CAMPAICN. PRIVATION IN GEE-MAN TRENCHES. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, January 3. German correspondents state that Christmas on the We it front did not resemble that of 1914. Vigilance and bitterness rule the troops. writers stato that last year the_ French fraternised, but not the Englisli; mow the condition is opposite, end there • is mutual dislike. Major Moralit says there has been tho greatest winter privation in the German trenches, particularly among the hundreds of thousands of brain workers who are now lighting. The strain of endurance on all fronts is greater than in all the wint-er campaigns in history.