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GERMAN ACCOUNTS By Telecrarli—Press Association—CopyriirM Berlin, •January 0. Official: An Allied aerial attack on Douai failed. Two British aeroplaaies wero shot down. A French hand grenade attack north of Mesnil (in the Champagne) was easily repulsed. 'Tlio Allies' artillery, is unintemiptedIy shelling Lens. AERIAL ACTIVITY. * STORES DEPOT BOMBED. (Rec. January 7, 8.50 p.m.) London, January 7. Sir Douglas Haig reports: "Eleven oi our aeroplanes bombed the stores depot at Lesars." GAS-MAKING PLANT. DESTROYED BY THE FRENCH. (Rec. January 7, 8.50 p.m.) Paris, Jauuary 7A_French communique says: "During an intense bombardment in the Champagne we destroyed an entiro gasmaking installation and several reservoirs exploded." GERMAN TRENCHES DESTROYED. (Rcc. January 7, 8.40 p.m.) Paris, January 6. A French .communique says: "Wo bombarded and destroyed German trenches in the Champagne." PASSINC TRAIN SHELLED. London, January 7, 1.15 a.m. The High Commissioner Teports:— South of Arras the station at Boisleaux was shelled, together with a passing train. In tho Champagne, north of Farm of Navarin, the material of a gas attack was destroyed by our guns.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 5
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176ON THE WESTERN FRONT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 5
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