VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT ON THE AISNE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 5

VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT ON THE AISNE

UNHAPPY REIMS AGAIN GENERAL SITUATION UNCHANGED The High Commissioner reports:— , "Jjht tank of the Aisne there was a violent bombardment? shells were fired on Reims, killing one civilian and wounding another In tte Argonno region the day was comparatively quilt. repulsed. There B isV ForwU?Apremonf.' ,WaS .JSS £S fightins Kas occurre " 3 i s

' 'On the heights of the Mouse lively infantry actions occurred in a ravine at Sonsvaux, a German attack with liquid fire being repulsed ravine a* "In the course of ..a day's fighting the French inflicted losses on the enemy and took over 200 prisoners." v °

SIR JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Aesd.—Copyright) London, July 18. Field-Marshal Sir 'John French reports:—"The situation has not changed since July 9, though there lias been considerable activity, the enemy and ourselves springing several mines. Our front was also subjected to a heavy bombardment at various places. "The enemy on July 10 developed a small attack north of Ypres and gained a footing on the front line. Our local support immediately recaptured what it lost. ' "The enemy on July 13 rushed an advanced post, on the Ypres-Menin Road, but were driven out immediately. Further north the same night we lost a trench held by one company, but bombing parties drove out the Germane and reoccupied it. A feature of the incident was the German employment of many gas shells."-