In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 20, 28 April 1916, Page 6

In the West.

■The High Commissioner reports: - London, April 27 (2.50 p.m ) The 'French officii report state* that th«f* is ti&miMmm&hMmeiit' ,iu the■ jagjon !of ButtesV'Wood. In. ■ titt a#ack>w* Vapr -tured 158 men, two machine guns, .ind a bomb - ; - In the Argonne,' N we 'heavily botuiharded.the.German organisations. In Lorraine, a .German attempt to deifcptieh on our position, north of Senones Later information estimates the German losses sustained in attacking our salient at Chapelotte yesterday at about 1P0Q,.. ,' , • -. . Ai? afhi'tic brought down nuour lines near Rossierea.. An enemy aeroplane- was shot down by.our special guns at Bagatelle pavillion. , . On the-.night-.of-tjie 25tli our battle planes were particularly active n . a Verdun region. ... Fifteen shells *ere draped on encampments at Etain, four on encampments near I)amviljcrs : six on station, W Connanli : on Pierre Font sta'ium ':s?ix on steelworks at Joei« Hom&purt; tendon Mezierurs . station, and two on Rethel. Numerous bombardments were carried apt-in the .region of . Eighteen shells were dropped on munition depot'soutb of Yillercarbom>l, resisting in heavy explosions, twelve bomb's on .the Billies bridge, and .'* Granny depot-.

& ;litst Comihissioner reports : , • ' Aa Lcfiidon/ Aprils" (12,45 a.m.) llnlisli-7 headquarters reports, ol April p "J Hoi tile aircraft wed This, morning a hostile aeroplanewas brought down in i)ur"linos'afiier a light in which a pilot and .observer were killed. "At ; , rnidnight »n airship dropped the coast" behind our lines.; but'4io' damage was done. Last, night we twice raided south of the^a^BaWo'^irt:;.!,.'. hand fighting occurred early t-his morliing. A tntxid wiasi exploded wmth-oast of Soudiez and the enemy obtained ,'i'a footing-in ,our trenchers, ''huft avot* -driven 'out by a coonter-