WESTERN CAMPAIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16922, 30 July 1915, Page 7

WESTERN CAMPAIGN.

ENEMY ATTACKS. FIGHTING AT SOUCHEZ. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. PARIS, July 28. A communique states : The Germans, north of Souchez, after a heavy bombardment, launched attacks at three different points. After a very lively fight tho Germans were driven out of tho trenches which they had succeeded in penetrating, except at one point, where they hold twenty metres of a saphead. 1 ZEEBRUCGE BOMBARDED. GERMAN SUBMARINES DAMAGED (Received Julv 29, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. Amsterdam reports that Fronck warships on Friday bombarded Zeebruggo and badly damaged a German torpedo boat. Airmen wero bombing Zeebrugge for four nights. It is believed, that they damaged two submarines. IN THE VOSGES. FRENCH CAPTURE BLOCKHOUSES (Received July 29, 9.45 p.m.) PARIS, July 29. The following official report has been! issued: — AVe occupied two enemy blockhouses east of Lingekopf and Schrazzmannelo. There were no notable incidents elsewhere. SECOND WINTER CAMPAIGN PROSPECT ACCEPTED BY FRENCH. " Times " and Sydney “ Sun ” Service* LONDON, July 2S. “ The Times’s ” correspondent ig Paris says:—“At the beginning of th« war all Frenchmen expected that, whatever the result of tho struggle, it would speedily bo attained. • Mow they accept the prospect of another wintef campaign. In tho early months east credence was given to reports of tho enemy’s food scarcity, financial chaos and military demoralisation.- Now such stories rarely appear in the French Press. “Tho war has proved a greater instrument of democracy than the French Revolution. It is difficult to discuss the frame of mind of the different classes of society when all are levelled by tho ordeal of battle. Morally they aro ono to-day._ The French army isr tho French nation.” GERMAN CLAIMS. SUCCESSES AT SOUCHEZ AND IN VOSGES. AMSTERDAM, July 28. A Berlin communique states that, the Silesian Lnndsturm stormed some trenches north-west of Souchez and captured four machine guns. ’ On tho Liugokopf-Barron-kopf line, after a four hours’ hand to hand struggle, our counterattacks repulsed the French attacks. We captured tho trenches previously lost at Lingekopf, except a small portion. Wo took a thousand prisoners.