In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 38, 19 May 1916, Page 5

In the West.

1 OFFICIAL REPORTS. The High Commissioner reports :• London, May 18 (3.10 p.m.) Between the Oise and the Aisno a strong enemy reconnaisance,Mvhich attempted to enter our lines in the neighborhood of Guennevieres. was counter-attacked and dispersed, leaving dead on the ground. On the left bank of the" Meuse, after lively artillery preparation, Germans repeatedly attempted in the eourse of the night, to take a redoubt in Avocourt Wood, but repulsed with serious losses by our fire by three o'clock this morning. A successful coup-de-main was made on a German trench north of Hill 287, the occupants being either killed or taken prisoner. At the same hour, after a sanguinary engagement, we possessed a small German fort firmly organised on the north-eastern slope of Hill 304. On the right bank 'and in the Woevre there is a reciprocal bombardment.

In aviation last night, the Germans dropped several bombs in the region of Lunville, Epinal, and Belfort, causing unimportant material damage. French aeroplanes carried out numerous bombardments on the front north of Vendun. A notable feature of the raid were the dropping of fifteen large calibre bombs on the munition depot between Raucourt and Arrocourt, ten kilometers Sedan; five bombs on the rail station at Sedan, where an outbreak of fire was observed; fifteen on a munition depot in the neighbourhood of Agannes. The same night two machines dropped 80 bombs on the Metz-Sablons station.