THE WESTERN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 115, 1 February 1918, Page 5

THE WESTERN FRONT

GREAT AIR ACTIVITY DAY AND NIGHT FIGHTING London, January 30. Sir Douglas Haig reports: "Hostile artillery is active on the Arras and Ypres fronts. Our aeroplanes yesterday dropped four hundred bombs at Roulers and Menin, and on an aerodrome near Tournai, and also fired several thousand rounds at enemy troops. Air fighting was continuous all day. Last night we droped six and a half tons of bombs on billets, railway stations, trains, and two night-flying aerodromes near Ghent and Tournai. All our machines returned. Patrol encounters occurred north-east of Havrincourt and Bullecourt, in which the British were successful." The Admiralty announces a successful naval air raid on tho Coolkerke aerodrome. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-R-euter. EX HAMBURG-AMERIKA MAMMOTH AS TRANSPORT CARRYING THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS. New York, January 30. It is announced from Paris that tha steamer Leviathan (56,282 tons), formerly the Gorman-owned Vaterland (interned in Now York in 1914, and taken possession of by the _ United States on the latter's break with Germany), has arrived at a European port, carrying thousands of American sol-diers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. February 1, 1.30 a.m.) New York, January 30. Sixteen former North German liners, laden wilh American troops and supplies, have arrived at a French port.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOUTH AFRICA'S RETURNED SOLDIERS RESTORATION TO CIVIL OCCUPATIONS. CRec. January 31, 7.30 p.m.) Capo Town, January 30. The Assembly has appointod a Select Committee to report on the provision for returned soldiers, particularly as to training and assisting them u> return to civil occupations. General Hertzog opposed the proposal on the ground that it was not in the interests of tho country to do anything to encourage the continuance of tho war.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Ansn.