ALLIES BOMB OSTEND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 116, 18 January 1915, Page 5

ALLIES BOMB OSTEND.

CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE, j LONDON, Jan. 17. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Calais says nine aviators bombed the railway and barracks at Ostend, doing considerable damage. INFESTED WITH SPIES. LONDON, Jana: 17. The. poiice hjt Dunkirk arrested a hundred and forced 2500 strangers to leave the town owing to spies donning t'.nd British uniforms. GERMAN FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS. • • COPENHAGEN, Jaw. 17. The German official report says Finance Minister Kuhn has resigned, owing to ill-health. WEATHER IMPEDES OPERATIONS. PARIS, Jana. 16. (OffieiaV).— There is nothing notable to report. Vienna official , reports state that nothing,is doing in the Carpathians, where increasing frosts is impeding oprations. ENEMY REOCCUPIES SOME TRENCHES. PARIS, Jan. 16. (Official).— The enemy reoecupied portion of the trenches at Notre Damo ■,. de Lorette, which were lost on the 14tn. We progressed at Blanagwy and repulsed an atatck west of La Boisselle. The artillery was effective in the region oi Soissons and Rheims, dispersing thl enemy and demolishing works. ' A stubborn German attack at Flirey failed, and the enemy was forced to evacuate a crest east of Pont-a-Moue-«oa. ij ••■'.- - A GERMAN REPORT. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16 A German communique saysi.Wc pulsed attacks north-wesr of A'r. counter-attacked and captured V fcpnckes, and took prisoners the ? nders. The French Evacuated La B<>: farm. THE EAST COAST RAID. MORE DEATHS AT HARTLEPOOi LONDON, Jan. 16. Further deaths at Hartlepool have raised the total of those who have died as a result of the German raid on the east'coast of England to 115.