In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 42, 25 January 1916, Page 5

In the West.

VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACK. f BUCCESSFU| I'j COUNTER-ATTACK fHwxTKn Tuvan •Paris, January 2L • -"TV. . • V . • ’ I’, ‘i . A communique states that after mine explosions •; and a violent bombardment the' German attack at Neuville Saint Vaast penetrated several hundred metres of our first line of treilches; and reached the supporting trench. Our counter-attacks were immediately launched and we dislodged the enemy, who by the afternoon only held two hundred metres forming a salient of our lines. Our curtain of fire and the machine-guns inflicted heavy losses on the attackers. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports: — London, January 24 (4.55 p.m.) North-east of Boye, east of Soyecourt, to the south of The Somme, an enemy convoy lias been bombarded. Six projectiles, "ere thrown on Nancy this morning. In the course of the night, French aviators bombed the Anizy-Laon railway and establishments at Nugent and La Bassee. . This morning one of our air squadrons, composed of seven machines, threw twenty shells on enemy cantonments at Southulset and Middlekirk.