OPERATIONS IN THE WESTERN THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2387, 17 February 1915, Page 5

OPERATIONS IN THE WESTERN THEATRE

I , SUCCESS NEAR LA BASSEE KEPOKTED GERMAN MOVE IN LORRAINE Paris, February 15 A commumqito states: —"We carried 250 yards of trench between Bcthuno and La Bassee. "Hot lighting from trench to trench continues in tho Bagatelle and i Marie Thercse regions." The High Commissioner reports (uatlcr d»U Loudtm, Fobrmiry la, 5,20

''Paris reports that the Allies captured two hundred and fifty metres of trenches established the road from Bethune to La Bassee. Iu Lorraine, the ouerny after repelling the French vanguard, occupied Xon Beacon and Norrov Hamlet (beyond Pont-a-Mousson). The enemy were repulsed by a counterattacK to the north slopes or the Beacon, where some trenches fire still held. I*rencn skimen executed a very brilliant running attack on the elopes at Langenfeldkoff. 1 ENEMY'S AEROPLANES MASSING IN LORRAISTE. . The majority of the German aeroplanes have be^n'trisforred 7 to°'Lorrainc, as a prelude, it js stated, to a big attack on the eastern French frontier. FIERCE BATTLE ON SUNDAY MORNING GERMAN COLUMN -HURLED AT THE BRITISH. (Rec. February 16, 10.30 p.m.) ~ „ 0 , . , Paris, February 16. J-tto Germans on Sunday morning threw a column at the British position before Guinohy, but the massed attackers did not reach our trenches. A counter-attack was launched while the remnants were retiring in confusion' and a few minutes later the British were in one' of the longest German trenches backing, hewing, and weilding clubbed rifles. ' Six thousand British were engaged in the fight. Our casualties were-con-siderable, 'but those of the Germans were much heavier.