THE ALLIES’ CAMPAIGN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3997, 2 August 1915, Page 5

THE ALLIES’ CAMPAIGN.

SITUATION IN ALSACE. ENEMY’S FEVERISH ACTIVITY. STRONG OFFENSIVE EXPECTED THE FRENCH FORCES READY. (Times and Sydney Hun Services.) (Received July 31, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, -July 31. .“I he 1 mm-” correspondent, review' the .srUiiiiion in Alsace, points out that the campaign continues without exciting incidents', and there has been no notable advances. The enemy have recently been working with feverish energy i roin the Swiss frontier to the Vosges, and probably there will soon be a strong offensive launched. Wliehevor it comes, the French are ready. (Received Aug. I. 10.33 p.m.) Official : There were no infantry engagements oil Saturday. Severn Frem-h aeroplanes bombarded the station and factories at Freiburg. Motor trouble compelled one t-o land in the German lines. SITUATION AT HGQC.E. Ml ITISj 1 PORTIONS BOMBARDED REFORT BY GENERAL FRENCH. (Received Aug. 1. 3.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. Sir John French rc.-poi ts that the enemy began on Friday morning the bombardment of our positions north and .south of Jiooge. foliowed by an attach’ with fiaine-pro.jectork , chiefly ugnmst our recent';.-captured trenches at Jiooge. They .succeeded in penetrating oUr iu'.-t.-iiuo trenches on it 000 yards front. Tim lighting progresses. FRENCH A£RIAL~HORNETS AMAZING RAIDS ON GERMAN j’OHITJGXH. • MANY PLACES BOMBED. ('Received Aug. 1. 3.40 p.m A PARIS, July 31. Official: Our aeroplanes bombarded the Ypres-Ronlers railway, Pasuchendanc*. 'German bivouac s a t Longjseval and west of Onubles, and defence work-, at BHinorit, near Rheiins, the military station at Chatel in the Argonne, ;!:*.• ijuiTin-conrt station in f.orraiim. and an asphyxiating gas faciory at L’-oru-ch Ak-a.'e. >fiuadi or, - I,o:iihai ri,-d Freiburg station, and dropped torty Itombs at Gnr.unv rtatlnn. Fo-iy-fiva a“'!'o|d'inc- .-turtod out to raid the petrol f->: to: s in FedieJbrom . but owing to clouds and fogs onlv t. portion n v h'-d their goal. They droijiit-d 143 shells. Others bombed the Dctwilier station and the Plml.-hnurg aitshedo. All the aeroplane- returned. Official: German aviators bombarded Hi. Pol without doing any damage and also GraVvlimm. where a child was killed. the Germans exploded a mine where the roads from "V.wqn to Bagatelle and Lay on to Bfnnrvilie cross. After a sharp struggle we occupied an excavation t.rodwed hv the enemy. \n" n vi':- - • •'■ *•<.•) v,— doin'* insignificant damage. landed Kettvomf the Fivi.vh and rman lines. The e. viators es-r. dThe machine was i r.mght down < to our trcnch.e-. , THE CERjv’Af! FORCES. SOME INT K R EHT ~l N G STRM IHF.H - (Reccivc-d Aug. 1. 3.40 p.m A LONDON. July 31. Tim •'•Ciii'onide’s” Dunkirk correspondent says tlic-i'e is good reason to believe tlie Germans on the western front are far fewer than they profess. ’While it is true that 130.000 have rcinfo-c'-d th<- line from Arras to YprVm" them Imve rc-Mlv replaced withdrawn r.;r'M and ]vcbahly only portion oi the <viitrc has L-vii strengthened. The Crown Prince seems to have i- - iv,-; hetwevn L-JO.COp ami 250.000 ivintoivi un-ms. I’rohaniy dm Germans holding the western one not exceed a ’uehoii end a-na.i. *• the two and n-hau tanmm- ot rc>er\e» at tiie Hu-.:•> M / . .S' thirds were sent t-- t!te ca-t ra.u further million to 1.20 TOOtf remain under arms air 0. tola r, hut- me oi not much vame. PEACE MAKERS ROUCHLY HANDLED. CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND FAILS.

(Received August 1. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 1. Members of an organisation, styled the '-Fellowship of Reconciliation" were roughly handled at- Hincdey when concluding a peace campaign. The speakers declared that England shouldn't have entered the war and added: --Ifthe Kaiser had boon allowed to come hero he vonan * hat*, harmed anyone." . wnereupqn the crowd made a hen-are oi men c.. van tents. . . , The police ro.-cuod the .peace-make is and escorted them out ot town.

w 0 R E AUST RA L ASIA U WOUND ED. 500 ARRIVE AT PERTH. (Received Augu-t 1. 7.30 p m.l PERTH. Aug. 1. \ further 000 wounded have arrived by the steamer Ballarat.