GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS.
ENEMY RAID
fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ■ & REUTER.] LONDON, June 5.
Sir Douglas Haig reports: As a result of an attempted enemy raid in the neighbourhood ef Marlaneourt, we took twenty-one prisoners.
THE AVIATION REPORT
LONDON, June 6.
Sir Douglas Haig’s aviation report states:—The weather was overcast and enemy aircraft were not active on Tuesday. We brought down one machine and drove down one. Wo 'dropped tons of bombs during tho day and night. There were no British losses. RAIDERS REPULSED. (Received This Dav nt 9.30. a.m.) LONDON, June C. At 12.35 p.m.. General Ilaig reported : Tho, enemy re-attempted to raid .south-westward of Morl&ncourt, but wore, repulsed with loss. Another party who rushed a post in the neigh bourhood of Boyelles were repulsed. There have lioon attempted raids northward of Bethune, and eastward of Nieppe Forrest. Hostile artillery was active in the Straticle sector.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19180607.2.12.5
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1918, Page 2
Word Count
146GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS. Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1918, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in