WESTERN CAMPAIGN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 5 January 1916, Page 5

WESTERN CAMPAIGN

GENERAL ACTIVITY ENEMY SUPPLY TRAIN DIS PERSED. GERMAN ATTACK IN CHAMPAGNE |; ' ; ' ,VJ ' FAILS. ' > (Official.) (■Rec. Jan. 5, 8.55 a.m.) ■■■■■ ■■'• PARIS, Jan. 4. ■ Our artillery sheQled' groups of the eiiemy j east of Bmesinghe, and also in the region of Steenstraete. We slielled the German first line trenches South of Somme, scattering- a supply : tiram. , In "Champagne an attack against our 'positions West of Tahure failed, ' 'ln the Vosges artillery duels continue. THE CHAMPAGNE BATTLE TERRIFIC GERMAN LOSSES. LONDON. Jan. 2. , The "National .Review" publishss a French General Staff officer's account of the' battle in, the .Champagne, which states that tho Germans, at the beginning of September, had 70 battalions on the Champagne front. Anticipating an Attack, .they added. 29 .battalions, and a,fter the battle were compelled to. send .93; fresh battalions. ,/The report adds: "We regard 150,000 as an , under.-est imato of the Germanlosses. ;Germ'any -used her resources and" men. prodigally, and now these are extremely limited. «' ViGiLANCE AND BITTERNESS RULE ' :NO CHRISTMAS FRATERNISING. ; i ' . LONDON, Jan. 3. German correspondents. . state that' Christmas on the -west front did not resemble that of 1914. Vigilance ,and bittieriress rule the troops. The writers stai4 , that last year the French fraternised,'' but not the English; now the con- | dition is' opposite, and there is mutual j dislike. - Major Moraht says there has been the greatest winter iprivation in the German trenches, particularly among the hundreds of thousands of brain*workers who are now fighting. The strain of endurance on all fronts is greater than in all the winter campaigns in history. KILLED IN FRANCE. (Rec. Jan. 5, 8.20 a.m.) I LONDON, Jan. 4. Lieutenant Harold Woodford, of the Berkfhires, son of the late Commissioner to the Solomons, was killed in France.