THE WESTERN FRONT

Inangahua Times, 4 October 1915, Page 3

THE WESTERN FRONT

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French Official Beport Reed this day, 10.5 a.m LONDON, Oct 2. French official reports state m he last battles at Champagne we re-established ourselves in close I prox'm ty to the seco'nd German ' 1 ne on a twelve kilome're front. Enemy Attacks Repulsed '" Reed this day at 11,15 a.m. PARIS, Oct 3 A comrr,unique s.sysßet ween xrnch z and Givenchy Wood the enemv made four attempts jo re-take by bombing portions of the last trenche?. Everywhere we repulsed the enemy's attack, and bombarded a portion of the reserve trenches. At Snippers Valley the enemv is still using afphyxhting shells. We silenced several of the enemy's batteries. A Correspondent's Vivid Picture. MBNM

Reed this day at 1.45 p.m.. LONDON, Oct 2 Reuter's Correspondent with the British Headquarters Staff, vividly portrays the conditions at the front in a despatch dated Sep f t3oth. He says .—" During the'last two days there has been 'but little further advance on the 'British front. Fighting has been proceeding in some places heavily along our new lines south of La Bassee, but none of the counter attacks succeeded. r-. The enemy lost heavily in killed and wounded. Our new positions have been consolidated. The weather has been unfavourable! After a dull grey day heavy) rain fell on Tuesday evening with a chilly wind. The flat Flanders countryside and especially the Black Country, is depres* sing to east degree. Everything is covered with mud« Picture long files of marching men, with water proof sheets right, and endless columns of huge motor lorries with a staff of cars dashing through the nits oh the roadside. To pass the traffic the motor despatch" riders, machines and men, become like a mass of mud. The only subject amongst the men is how theadyance is going. In one town are eight German fieldpieces, which were captured at Loos, diawn lip and guarded by soldiers fixed bayonets, French and English . inspect and decipher the German intcrip 1 ! tions on the barrels, engraved with the Imperial eagle and name of the Emperor, with chalked fitures to show the ranges of the guns when last fired.

(Official.) The High Commissioner reports :-*- There have been German counter attacks at Various parts of the front and all were re pulsed.