THE WAR IN THE WESTERN THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 14 January 1916, Page 5

THE WAR IN THE WESTERN THEATRE

NAVAL ATTACKS ON BELGIAN COAST SIX DESTRUCTIVE BOMBARDMENTS By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright T> A 1 • 1T) I V u tl . London, January 12. Rear-Admiral Bacon s dispatch on the operations on the Beh'ian coast from August to December reveals that a British armed yacht was sunk bv gunfire and a drifter and mine-sweeper sunk by mines. The total casualties were thirty-four killed and twenty-four wounded. There were six concerted operations of considcrablo magnitude, and eight smaller ones The enemy lost a torpedo-boat and tw o submarines. We destroyed three military factories, thirteen heavy guns, and many depots. We extensivelv damaged the Zeebrugga looks, also wharves and moles at various places" Our killed included Lieut.Commander Gaitside Tipping, the oldest naval'officer afloat. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports:— | London, January 13, 12.25 a.m. "In tlie Argonne/listriet the Germans exploded a mine on' Hill 285, producing a vast crater" A lively fight continue?, we having strongly organised the southern edge of the crater. "In the region of the Argo;ine and the Meuse the enemy's gas attacks failed." $ GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. 1 Amsterdam, January 12. A German communique states: Th French attack collapsed north-west of Le Mesial. An explosion in a magazine at. Lille, believed to be the result of an English plot, seriously damaged the adjacent streets. Seventy inhabitants were killed and forty wounded. AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. (Eeo. January 13, 10 p.m.) ~ , Amsterdam, January 13. A Vienna communique claims that the Russians on Tuesday mads six attempts to penetrate .the Austrian lines in Bessarabia, and were repulsed and forced to a disorderly retreat. Eight hundred dead Russians were found in front of an Austrian battalion.