FRANCE HARD AT WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 13 January 1916, Page 5

FRANCE HARD AT WORK

GERMAN" PAPERS COMPLAINING"LONDON, Jan. 11. The French Minister for Commerce is concentrating his attention on the preparations for the Allied Trades Congress. He is determined on the most aggressive and permanent anti-German commercial treaties. The German press is whining. The "Cologne Gazette" says: "If Germany's foreign trade, is permanently l-eduoed, the war, notwithstanding- the victories, is a failure." The "Frankfurt Zeitung" ascribes the 'proposals to the "unscrupulous English," adding : "The war must not end until most favoured nation treatment is guaranteed to Germany elsewhere." HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. " The Prime Minister has received the following Iby cable from the High Commissioner : London. Jan. 11, 5.55 p.m. On the Somme and the Oise< trench artillerv is active.

' An enemy detachment, in trying to . capture one'post in the section Darman- j court, was repulsed. I The 'latest news from Champagne con- j firms the fact that artillery and counter- j attacks fully averted an enemy import- > ant attack in which three German divisions participated. French counterattacks drove the enemy from observation posts. .' Except in a small rectangle west of Maison s de Champagne, where detach- i ments with difficulty sustain themselves, j the French line inflicted '.very heavy losses on the -Germans. * I London, Jan. 12, 1.50, a!m. j Between ' the Arvc and the Oise an • enemy reconnaissance was decimated. Important damage was done to, enemy ! works in the sector La Pompelle. ■ \