LATEST WAR NEWS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXVI, Issue 3366, 12 March 1915, Page 2

LATEST WAR NEWS.

FIGHTING IN THE WEST.

■\ ' " ..11 ■ ■ ■ • .■ PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES.

There has been a renewal of the heavy righting on the western front of the theatre of •i-.-tr. The ■■British, su;)poiti:d by the French heavy artillery, h.ive capluied the village of Neuve • Chapelle in Flanders, and have also made progress at other points. The Germans, lost heavily, fully 1000. surrendering. Further reports Aom Paris' have emphasised the importance of the successes in the Champagne district, where the Allies have now consolidated their - positions. The German version of the fighting •- claims that all the attacks were repulsed with; great loss to the' French. In the recent struggles in the trenches at Norte Dame de Lorette the Germans lost iooo." The Commission of Inquiry has published further instances of German atrocities "" in France, where civilians were maltreated. Women were imprisoned for a month'in a church under bad sanitary conditions. The Russians are continuing the advance on the East Prussian! border, and have repulsed attacks made by the Germans. The new Greek Ministry defends the policy of neutrality by saying that Greece requires a long period of peace after.her victorious wars.