Berlin, Sept. 16. In a brief reference to the Western Front, the latest German High Command' communique says: "Local attacks have been repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy."—Reuter.
Attack on jek Welcomed London, Sept. 16.
The situation "on the Western Front has become Increasingly interesting. Military observers here welcome the new French attack on Sierck as putting an additional strain on the Germans, General Marie Gustave Game-in, Generalissimo of the Allied forces, Is proceeding with great caution, taking care not to underrate the strength of the Germans.
"The French are well entrenched in German territory,-and the Allied aeroplanes are claimed to be conspletiously better than the German planes, is significant that the German barrages are being laid only with heavy artillery. Field guns would be more accurate, but might be fever-run by French danks ~i¢ they were to be moved within range—Reuter,
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