In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 66, 22 June 1916, Page 8

In the West.

TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT OF HiLL 304. Paris, J line 20. The Bulletin Des Acmes says that at ono time over a, hundred German batteries pounded Hill 3U-J and its immediate surroundings. The summit was transferred into a volcano, columns of smoke ascending in such density that aviators declared that the atmosphere, at a height of eight hundred metres, was as dense as.it was near the ground. The trenches were entirely riddled, and the occupants took refuge in shell holes. Notwithstanding the fearful bombardment, and after' launching twelve different attacks during the week, the Germans were unable to carry the position. West

GENERAL HAIG'S REPORT. [ London, June 21. ' General Sir Douglas Haig reports: There are mining activities and some bombardment on both sides. We surprised and bombed a large working party inflicting numerous casualties. The official review of the operations on the west front, referring to Sir Duoglas Hiiig's summary of events of the last five weeks, says this discreet statement fails to reveal the unceasing activity of the British. It is not stated that tne new British sector is ono of the two requiring the most vigilent watchfulness and the hardest efforts, daily the consuming large numbers of men and shells. It is impossible-to estimate the value of the untiring and methodical efforts which in each succeeding period strike a blow progressively increasing.