In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 4 September 1916, Page 6

In the West

VIOLENT ENEMY BOMBARDMENT

ALLIED AERIAL ACTIVITY.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.50 a.m.)

Paris, September 3

Our coup de main took prisoners from the German trenches at Armancourt. The Germans are violently bombarding positions at Thiauinont and Floury.

We bombed the rail station at Metzsablons, paying two visits and dropping eighty-six bombs and sixty bombs respectively, on the military depots northward of Metz, and the rail stations at .Maizieres les Metz, Conflans, Sedan, the Audun le Roman barracks and depots at Ham Nesle, Guiseard, Athis, and Monchylagache, we dropped 210 bombs.

GENERAL HAIC'S REPORT. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.50 a.m.) London, September 3. General Haig reports: The night was generally quiet, but there ,was fighting in the morning near Monquet Farm, southward of Thiepval, on the banks of the Ancre, and at Faii'omont Farm. Upon our right, we gained ground in these operations.

FIERCEST ENEMY ATTACK. GRUESOME SIGNALISING OF HINDENBURG'S PROMOTION. Pi ess Association—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams; (Received 8.50 a.m.) Paris, September 3. A German counter-attack on Thursday night in the neighbourhood of I)e----ville Wood was the fiercest the enemy has yet delivered. Picked troops were employed. The desperate character of assaults suggests that the Germans attached the utmost importance to success at this spot. The trenches wherein a footing wars ultimately effected were so battered that they did not afford them shelter. Hie attack was probably meant to signalise General Hindenburg's promotion, but if the casualties are published in Germany they will assuredly produce black dismay. MORE HUN CALLOUSNESS. Press Association —Copyright. Renter's Service. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, September 3. j As the Germans had sent children to Holland, a committee was formed to receive French children from the occupied districts of France, but the German Government prohibited their. removal. This callousness has shock-j ed the Dutch. I