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BRITISH ACTIVE ON WEST FROJMT
A FRENCH RAID
(Ilec. December 29, '.20 a.m.)" London, December 28. Sir Dougla,s Haig reports: We search' ed and bombed a few hundred yards.of trenches and dug-outs north-west of Lens, greatly, damaging them, without casualty. . Our positions northward of the Sonime and near Le Sars were heavily shelled at intervals. " ' Wo successfully ...bombarded the defences and trench-mortar emplacements in the neighbourhod of Eulluch and ■ westward of Messines.' In a number of air fights an enemy aeroplane was destroyed aiid five damaged. Three of oars are missing. A Paris, communique says: There is marked artillery activity in some sectors south of the Sornme, where an. enemy battery was exploded. _ We successfully fired several mines in the region of Bauvraignes, south of tho Avre, and then raided the.'enemy lines, capturing prisoners.—Aus.rN.Z.-.Cable'i Assn.-Reuter. •
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 5
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137LATE NEWS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 5
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