VIOLENT ATTACKS ON ALLIED LINES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2366, 23 January 1915, Page 7

VIOLENT ATTACKS ON ALLIED LINES

GERMANS ACTIVE IN > ■'.•'■.'•■• ' OFFENSIVE IN BELGIUM RECOMMENCED 1 . • (Rec. January, 23, 0.10 a.m.) . , , Paris, January 22. The. Germans are taking a violent offensive in the Albert region, with the "object of thrusting the French from the» plateau above the valley of the Ancre, where they have been established since November, and have formed a constant menace to the German line. Tho points of attack are La Boiselle, which ■ is across the main rdad from Amiens to Cambrai and Thiepval, which, lying on the hillside above tEe Ancre, commands a part of the German line in'.the" valley.. .':".' ' . BRITISH WARSHIPS DRIVE ENEMY FROM TRENCHES. > , (Reo. January 23, 0.10 a.m.) , Rotterdam, January 22. The Germans are recommencing the offensive in Belgium. British warships forced the Germans to evacuate their ooastal. positions at Mariakerke, below Ostend, but the Allies were unable to occupy them owing to German gunß further inland. '■'.'„ t no ote \ (Rec. January 22, 8.55 p.m.) - ' • Paris, January 22. Official.—The enemy violently bombarded positions at Notre Dame De Lorette and' then attacked at fife o'clock in the morning, but were instantly checked' We occupied two woods north-east of Beausejour, where, the German counter-attacks were unsuccessful. The Germans made a serious attack upon the salient of our line at St. Hubert and wrecked the trenches, but the infantry, and artillery were ■ _ GERMAN AMMUNITION DEPOT BLOWN UP. Paris, Januarv 21. 'A communique states: "We silenoed the enemy's batteries southward of the Somme and on the Aisne, and blew up the German works and an ammunition depot in the Prosnes-les-Marquises and Moronvillers districts, fifteen miles eastward of Reims. >-—..