FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144853, 3 December 1915, Page 3

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

ARTILLERY STILL BEST. PARIS, Dec. 2. , A communique states that there is intense artillery activity at various points. The Anglo-French artillery east of Bocsingho indicted important damage on tlio enemy’s defences, including a thirty metres breach in a redoubt. M. Gallieni. in the Chamber of Deputies, urged the calling up of .tho 1917 class, in order to make a decisive effort next spring. BELGIAN SWINDLERS ARRESTED. PARIS, Dec. 2. The police have arrested Omcr Boulanger, president of the Relief Committee for Distressed Belgians in Paris, and who was formerly King Leopold’s chauffeur, and also three bankers, formerly financiers in Brussels, on a charge of illicitly dealing with Belgian bank notes, honoured by the Bank of France and Bank of England fur Belgian refugees.