VIOLENT ATTACKS IN WEST.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5360, 18 February 1916, Page 5

VIOLENT ATTACKS IN WEST.

HEAVY BOMBABDMENTS.

London, Last Night. Sir Douglas Haig reports artillery bombardniients ou both sides. There has been heavy hand grenade fighting in the past twenty-four hours between Ypres and Cohines canal and railway. The fighting continues. Yesterday’s capture of six hundred yards of our trench was preceded by a heavy bombardment and the explosion of five mines. The attacks were extended over a four thousand yards front and were repulsed everywhere else with considerable enemy loss. The trench captured has frequently changed hands during the last year and has therefore -been knoivn as “international trench.” ENEMY EFFORTS FUTILE. London, Last Night. Colonel Rousset, a noted Parisian critic, points out that the Germans have delivered twenty attacks in strength on the west front: Two against the Yser, betiveen Ypres and the sea ,eight between Lens and Arras, three at Frise and Dompierre, two at Soiseons, three in the Champagne. and two in Upper Alsace. The result lias been practically nil. C< LORD l NATIN G RESOURCES. London, Last Night. The “Petit Pnrisien,” in an inspired article, states that it does not doubt that the Quadruple Entente is on the event of a new phase. A oonile re nee of Allied cominjaiulers-in-chiefs will soon be held in Paris to compute the men and material the Allies have at their command and to draw up and co-ordinate plans to regulate the mutual inter-change of men and material. Such interchanges would be rendered easier by fiscal customs and conventions. This means practising the principle that the whole war is on©, th© ©nr] one, and that it only should bo waged on one front, with one army and one stock of arms and munitions. The day was not far distant when Italy would take vengeance on Austria by striking at Germany. THE COLOSSAL COST. London. Last Night. In the House of Commons Mr McKenna said tin' nations! 1 debt had risen from £708,000.000 in 1914 to £2.200.000.000 in 1915-16. The Ger. mans gross war expenditure wn» £1.500,(XX).000 sterling. The French war credits to March were £1 54J - 000.000