IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 86, 4 January 1918, Page 5

IN THE WEST

ENEMY RAIDS REPULSED I BRITISH AIRMEN BOMB BILLETS ' London, January 2. Sir Douglas Haig reports: "An attempted raid by the' enemy early this morning- north-east of Loos- was repulsed. During December we took 1018 German prisoners. Our aeroplanes last night dropped a hundred bombs oii billets in the neighbourhood of Roulers and Menin. Several direct hits wero made." . A later report Bays: "We dispersed big raiding parties in the vicinity of Lens and, Hill 70 and north of Passchcndaele." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.

THE MISTAKE AT CAMBRAI CAVALRY DIDITOT PUSH HOME ■ PRELIMINARY SUCCESS. Paris, January 2. M. Marcel Hutin, writing in tho "Echo de Paris," says: "The losson of Cambrai has been of the greatest value to the British command. Von LudendorfE is now forced to admit that his famous storming troops from Hanover, Brunswick, and the provinces were compelled to relinguish most of the ground they had taken. The chief mistake in General Byng's attack was that tho cavalry did not intervene in time to push home the preliminary success. Latsr tlie British. Guardsmen held their own against the whole of the German Arniy._ The Guardsmen succeeded unaided in freeing great numbers of prisoners, recapturing most of the guns and all tho tanks left behind in the withdrawal. The spectacle of the Germans powerless to obtain any success on the British.front is extremely comforting."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH CAPTURES IN 1917 73,000 PRISONERS AND IMMENSE NUMBERi OF GUNS. (Rec. January 3, 7.50 p.m.) London, January 2. I During 1917 tho British captured 73,000 prisoners, 149 heay guns, 382 field guns, 618 trench mortars, and 2639 machine-guns on the West, front. —Reuter.