BRITISH LINES HEAVILY ATTACKED
NAVAL BATTLE
SEVERAL ENEMY CRAFT SUNK
HELIGOLAND BOMBARDED BY SEAPLANES
The Germaus have opened an offensive on the West front. The initial boriibardment was delivered on a front of fifty miles, from east of Arras to south of St. Quentin, but the main attack appears to be concentrated against the seotion of the Hindenburg line west of Cambrai, which the British captured and held in November last year., Few particulars are yet available, but one report speaks of the British machine-guns and artillery cutting swathes in the enemy's ranks. Particulars of aerial bomb-dropping show that during February, excluding raids on Germany, British airmen, dropped 5290 bombs on enemy positions in the daytime, as against 28 dropped by enemy airmen on British positions in. the daytime. Further interesting particulars are given of the shipping situation. It is reported from London that German destroyers, bombarding Dunkirk at dawn, were cut off and engaged, by an .Anglo-French flotilla, with the result that foiir or five of the enemy craft were sunk. British seaplanes have 'bombarded Heligoland.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 158, 23 March 1918, Page 7
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177BRITISH LINES HEAVILY ATTACKED Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 158, 23 March 1918, Page 7
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