THE WEST FRONT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12085, 14 August 1917, Page 5

THE WEST FRONT.

<« NOTHING SPECIAL TO REPORT." Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. (Received August 14. noon.) LONDON, August 13. Sir DoMglas Haig telegraphs that) there is nothing special to report. TERRIFIC GUN FIRE. HUGE LOSSES OF ENEMY IN FLANDERS. " The Time 3 " Service. (Received August 14, 1 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 13. The 'British gunfire was intense during the week-end. Windows rattled day and night in the south of Holland. Train-loads of German wounded are traversing Belgium, and the hospitals in Ghent, Bruges and Brussels- are full. Reinforcements of youths of eighteen pre arriving to fill the gaps. A regiment of Bavarians quartered at Blankenberghe suffered grievously at Westhoek. In one battalion only eighty were unwounded. WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLEFIELD. AWFUL CEASELESS COMBAT. WHOLE LINE WRAPPED IN SHELL SMOKE. United Servics. (Received August 14. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 13. The whole of the line in Flanders is wrapped in the smoke of British and German shells. The communiques give a very vague impression of the awful ceaseless contest'. The artillery concentration for outWeigh those at Verdun or the fiorame. The numbers of troops are the greatest gathered on any battlefield. The enemy's artillery tortures the British Army, but our fire is infinitely vorse.