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[electric TELEGttAI'H —COrVItIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received This Day, 11.45 a.m
London, January 10Sir Douglas Haig reports the usual,artillery activity. Our aeroplanes last night dropped a ton of high explosive bombs on Thionville steel works, midway between Luxemburg and Metz, and a further half ton on two large railway junctions in the neighbourhood of Metz.
Considerable anti-aircraft searchlight barrages were encountered, but all machines returned. A i'rench communique reports violent artillery actions at'' the Beaumont and Caitrieres wood sectcr and on the right bank of the Meuse. Enemy attacks at Chaume wood on a front of two hundred metres were broken by our artillery. A few of the enemy gained a footing in an advanced element, but were immediately thrown out.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 January 1918, Page 3
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125Dropped on German Works. Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 January 1918, Page 3
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