" ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1918, Page 3

" ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIWHT.]

FRENCH. AIR OPERATIONS

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CADLIS ASSOCIATION & ttSOTEU.J

(Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, July 24.

A French communique reports that aviators wore activo on 22nd July. Franco-British pilots felled or disabled thirty-seven machines. ITiere wore numerous air fight 3.

Tn bombing operations 33} tons vve dropped during the daytime on enemy aerodromes and stations and 13 hundred kilogrammes dropped during tho night raids on the station at Maisondaleu, causing a conflagration and explosions.

AMERICAN OPERATIONS. (Received This Pay at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. An American communique states south of the Ourcq we continued to press the retreating enemy. TVc took possession of Jaulgonne and woods eastward, ■

OFFICIAL NEWS. WELLINGTON, This Pay. The High Commissioner reports from London July 24th at 4.50 p.m. French official.—Eastward of Rhoims in the region of Vrigny a German counter attack at 9 p.m. was broken and our position kept intact.

THFi MARNE FAILURE. NEWSPAPER PENIAL. (Received This Pnv nt. 12.25. p.m.) AMSTERDAM! July 24. The failure on tho Marne has seriously pliaken the German populations morale. Newspapers give prominence to tranquilising articles and deny 1 rumour of attempts on the lives of the Kaiser and Hindenburg.

GERMAN LOSSES. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON/ July 24. A French headquarters correspondent states it is known the enemy have engaged sixty tQ eighty divisions since ihe fifteenth. Careful estimate reckons the total German casualties and prisoners are 180 thousand.