In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 21, 23 September 1915, Page 5

In the West.

ALLIES' AERIAL ACTIVITY. High Commissioner reports:— • London, September 22 (4.45 p.m.) Allies' aviators bombarded enemy cantonments at Middlekerke an<l also a train between Bruges and Thouron. . A group of eight aeroplanes effectively bombed the railway station at Conflans on the line from Verdun to Mete. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 1 - Amsterdam,) September 22. A German communique admits that the French batteries shot away fragments of the lock on the Marne-Aisne canal, north-westward of Rheims, and compelled the Germans to evacuate the position during the night. London, September 21. Sir John French reports that the enemy artillery has shown increased activity on our front during the past two days. We effectively replied on September 20, part of the forest of Houthulet being ignited, our artillery causing a big explosion. On Septem-■ber-19 there were nine air combats, and •two hostile.aeroplanes were driven to the ground in the German lines. One fell enveloped in flames entirely, and the other was afire. Paris, September 22. A communique states: We silenced several of the enemy's batteries in the Argonne and Woevre districts, and destroyed a blockhouse in the forest of Apremont. We broke down the works for long-range guns, capable of shelling the districts of Nancy and Luneville. Nineteen aeroplanes bombarded Barsdor Junction with one hundred bombs, and very seriously damaged a building and stationary trains.