MISCELLANEOUS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2788, 10 August 1915, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

GERMANS' CHANGE OF PLAN

(Received August 10, 10.35 a.m.) .; Petrograd, August 9. The newspapers assume that the Germans are altering their plans on the eastern front, and are now aiming at Ossowise. They declare that tho enemy's operations towards Riga have entirely failed. The Novoe Vremya states that the Germans have been thrown back at Mitau, which explains the sudden' attack on Kovno. The Baltic papers imply that Mitau is now again m possessions of the' Russians. FRENCH REPULSE ALL ATTACKS Paris, August 9. • A communique states that a German attack north-west of Souchez station was repulsed. The enemy, after exploding a mine, violently bombarded our positions easfavard of the Lille road in the Neuville district, and attempted to # leave the trenches, but were immediately stopped by our infantry and artillery. The enemy attacked our advanced poets and trenches at Vienne La Chateau, on the Binarvillc road, in the Argonne, with grenades and bombs, 'but were driven back. A- fresh night attack on our j)osition at Linge completely failed, our curtain of fire inflicting considerable losses. GERMAN CLAIMS DISCOUNTED. London, August 9. The French Embassy's communique states that in the Argonne the enemy's activity was incessant, all German attacks being repulsed with heavy losses, apart from our loss of a portion of an advanced trench. The number of prisoners claimed by the Germans is double the truth. In I<orraiuc no French reconnaissance has been repulsed, but we repulsed tho Germans. The- confused and embarrassed language of the German communiques ill conceals the -persistan.ee of their reverses in the Vosges, where we captured important ridges at Lingekopf and Barrenkopf. and throw back numerous attacks. .'.No French aeroplane was shot down by German artillery, as they claimed. London, August 9. Twenty-seven million registration forms were distributed in England, Scotland, and Wales.. to persons between the ages of 16 and 65 years. The houses served numbered 20,000, and known occupations expressed in the forms carry 500 definitions, which are coded into 46 divisions for men and 30 for women.