RENEWED ACTIVITY IN THE WESTERN THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 5

RENEWED ACTIVITY IN THE WESTERN THEATRE

EFFECTIVE BOMBARDMENTS AND MINE FIGHTING By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright \ (Rec. November 27, 8 p.m.) T . London, November 27. bir John French reports:—"Our artillery Lave successfully bombarded many portions of the German trenches during the past four daj - s, destroying the wire entanglements and making breaches iii the parapets. The enemy has little re though the hostile artillery has been active northward of Albert, Loso, Ploegsteert, and east of Ypres. "Theenemy on the evening of November 22 made a heavy bomb attack on our mine-crater southward of the Bethune-La Basseo Road, but were repulsed. _ \ "Mining is constant everywhere. "Twenty-three aeroplanes on November 25 successfully bombed a German hut encampment eastward of Albert." HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REP CM. The High Commissioner reports:— . London, November 26, 12.20 a.m. Pans reports:—Artillery activity has been much livelier. In the Argonne a German munitions depot was exploded. At Courtes Chausse the enemy were expelled from a mine crater, which was subsequently occupied by the French." 1 London, November 27, 4.20 p.m. "Yesterday, between Forges and Bestincourt, west of the Meuse, an enemy emission of suffocating gas produced no result. Their infantry did not attack. "On the same day a German aeroplane fell into the river Aisne a little east of Berry-au-Bac, the aviators saving themselves by swimming. Several sheila from the French batteries destroyed tho machine." London, November 28,1.45 a.m. "Paris reports artillery actions-in Belgium. Gas attacks yesterday in the sector between Forges and Bethincourt were completely repulsed." EXTENSIVE MOVEMENTS OF ENEMY'S TROOPS (Rec. November 28, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, November 27. There have been extensive movements of the enemy's troops from the Western theatre to Serbia. The railway through Freiburg, Ulm, and Augsburg has been entirely closed to ordinary traffic. There are other movements of troops from Hanover and Cologne towards Belgium.