FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144859, 10 December 1915, Page 3

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS MOVING TOWARDS' ALSACE. (Received Doc. 10, 8.5 a.m.) BERNE, Deo. 9. Owing to heavy movements of German troops towards Alsace, the SwissGoi man frontier lias been closed and tho civil population of Altkirch ordered to abandon tho city. EXPLOSION AT A NAMUR FORT. (Received Deo. 10, 8.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 9. An explosion dcstroj-ed the Coguole Fort at Namur, Eighty German soldiers are reported to have been killed. SOME FRENCH SUCCESSES. PARIS, Dec. 9. A French communique states:—Our machine-guns in Belgium prevented tho enemy restoring their damaged works, and our curtain of tiro stopped a German attack north of Arms. We destroyed the enemy’s position near Roye, and the struggle continues eastward of Souain Hill for tho recapture of tho ground occupied by the enemy. QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS. ' LONDON, Dec. 9. The Belgian Queen, despite the advice and solicitations of the consuls and doctors, refuses to leave the hospitals at the front, which have five times been bombarded in three weeks, as a result of which there were one hundred ’deaths, only three of the victims being soldiers. . A GERMAN REPORT. LONDON, Dec. 9. A German wireless, states:—An attempt by tbo enemy in contesting our success oast of Aubcrive failed, and north of the Souain position at Hill 193, over a distance of 500 yards wrested from tho French, four counterattacks wore repulsed. YSER INUNDATIONS. DRIVE BACK THE GERMANS. TIMES AND BTDNET SUN SERVICES. (Received Deo. 10, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 9. The Gormans havo abandoned numerous advanced works on the Yser owing to new Belgian inundations.

SOME FRENCH SUCCESSES. WELLINGTON,"Dec. 10. ■ The High Commissioner reports under dote London, December 9 (5.15 p.m.):— In Champagne, in the, rouise of the night, our artillery continued to bombard the German positions, destroying the munitions depot south of St. Souplet. The French counter-attack east of Butie-do-Souain has continued to hurl back tbo enemy, who now only holds a portion of an advanced trench, whore ho is unable to establish himself. In the Argonno the French successfully exploded two mines in the region of High Chevauchec.