THE WEST FRONT
AIR AND TRENCH RAIDS London, January 28. The Admiralty reports:—"Naval aircraft bombed the Aertrycke aerodrome and tho Engel dump. The result is unknown." Sir Douglas Haig reports:—-"The enemy raided an advanced post northeast of Langemarck. Tho hostile artillery is active south-west of Cambrai, north of Lens, and at Passchendaele." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. ON THE NEW ZEALAND FRONT A QUIET TIME. (Special Dispatch from New Zealand Official Vi'ar Correspondent.) January 26. The New Zealanders have been busy improving the sector they at present hold. Fighting activity has died down, and recently the enemy's artillery firo has been much below normal. Our guns, however, remain fairly active. Our casualties have decreased considerably. There has been active sniping from the enemy's lines, though their shooting is not good. Our snipers and machine-gunners give the enemy little chance of approaching in the open. Both machine-gunners and trench mortars fire on the low-flying enemy 'planes, often forcing the pilots to climb out of range._ Our patrols are continually reconnoitring in NoMan's Land, going out by night and also in daylight. Opposite our lines on the German front was a derelict tank occupied by an_ enemy outpost. Several Germans going and coming to it were killed or wounded hero by machine-gun and rifle lire. Finally our artillery got on to it, and finished the post. ■» Our men went out and found twelve of tho enemy's dead insido the tank. Some of them had apparently been wounded by bullets, and had crawled in for shelter. These and some others had been killed by tho shock of our bursting shells, which fell all around. Recently, after a sharp trench-mor-tar bombardment at half-past one in the morning, four parties of the enemy, numbering about one hundred, attempted to gain our trenches. By the time Ihov had started, our men were standing to arms, and quickly got to work with their rifles and Lewis guns, with tho result that only one party got as far as our wire, and nono ontered Ihe trench. In this little brush our artillery distinguished themsolves by the promptitude with which they responded to the "5.0.5." call. Their first shell burst on tho Gorman position before S.O.S. had hurst out, and the barrage camu down almost immediately. Tho attack had, however, been already repulsed by the local firo, hut tho infantrymen were delighted with
r the promptness of the artillery response. The enemy in their advance threw some bombs, but most of these fell short. When daylight broke eight of the enemy's dead were seen lying outside our wire. Besides these bodies thoro were many other indications of casualties.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 30 January 1918, Page 5
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