OPERATIONS IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2396, 27 February 1915, Page 7

OPERATIONS IN THE WEST

| GOOD WORK BY AIRMEN ENEMY'S CAMPS BOMBED Paris, February 25. 'A' communique states: —-"Aviators have thrown bombs on the enemy's railway stations and concentration camps in the Champagne district." ONCE MORE TO CALAIS. GREAT EFFORT TALKED OF. (Rec. February 27, 0.5 a.m.) s Amsterdam, February 26. German officers declare that a Effort will he made against Calais in three weeks time. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT The High Commissioner reports as follows to the Prime Minister: Paris reports • —At Lombaertzyde the Allies' artillery demolished a blockhouse and the enemy look-outs. In the Champagne region the successes realised yesterday were maintained: all German counter-attacks were repulsed. The Allies' aviators discharged sixty bombs at railway stations, trains, and enemy's concentrations. It was a very efficacious bombardment. Between the Argonne and Meuse the Allies' heavy artillery destroyed armoured shelters. The enemy was unable to retake the trenches captured. London, February 26. At Lombaertzyde the Allies' artillery reduced to silence and seriously an auemy 'At RauiM.H ad Bkusfljaus &&

under favourable conditions, notably the carrying of a German earthwork north of Mesnil. We dispersed a marching column,south of.Tahure. REMARKABLE ARTILLERY FIRE (Rec. February 27, 0.5 a.m.) riffi • V <iru Parls ' Fel l rnai 7 26 ' Uttioial.—"Our success at Les Eparges was due to our remarkable artillery fire. Au officer of the Eighth Bavarians, who was taken prisoner, stated that'he had been unable to prevent panic. Most of his men fled before the intensity of our fire, -and those remaining were killed. Our gain represented five hundred metres of trenches. There was violent bayonet work, and two hundred of the enemy's dead were round in one trench. After seven attacks the enemy then retired exhausted, losing half their effectives."