WESTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 August 1917, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

ARTILLERY BATTLE. NORTH OF THE MEUSE. LONDON. August 20. A French communique reports: .“North of Verdun a great artillery fight is in progress on the right bank of the Meuse between amogneux and La Chaume Wood. We made slight progress on the left bank, south of Bethincourt. ’' FIGHTING THE TANKS. TURRETS CREWS 1 LONDON, August 26. Officers at headquarters state that the German claim of the destruction of 21 tanks is ridiculous, only a fraction of this number having been knocked out by the tank destroyers, known as the anti-tank turrets. The success of these might have been greater, but the crews of many unnerved by the line of advancing tanks joined in the general stampede, and scuttled back to their holes. * ANOTHER FRENCH SUCCESS. LONDON,. 'August 26. A French communique sjtfites: On the right of the’ Meuse we successfully attacked between Mormont Farm and the Bois le Channe and captured all our objectives on a fou.r-kilometre front to a depth of a kilometre.- The whole of the Bois des Fosses and the Bois de Beaumont are in our hands. We reached the southern outskirts of the village of Beaumont. The artillery jjtaught and dispersed with heavy losses a violent counterattack debouching on the Bois de la Wavrille. THE GERMAN REPORT. LONDON, August 26. Wireless German official. The French gained initial! successes near Beaumont. We subsequently drov,e them back. BRITISH MAKE ANOTHER STEP FORWARD. LONDON, August 26. Sir Douglas/Haig reports: We. captured the enemy”s positions on a front of over a mite eastward of Hargicourt and pentrated half-a-mile, carrying the strong points of Boulogne Farm and Talakof. FURTHER SEVERE STRUGGLE. LONDON, August 26. The enemy this morning attacked, using flammenwcrfer, the Yp.res-Mcn-in road and momentarily re-occupied the north-west corner of Inverness Copse, but a counter-attack restored the positions. We slightly advanced south-east of Bt. Julicn. The enemy recaptured a post south west of Lombartzyde. We brought down seven enemy aeroplanes. A SUCCESSFUL RAID. Received 9.25. LONDON, August 28. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: We successfully raided this morning east of Oostaverne, taking prisoners. IN ABYSSINIA. EX-EMPEROR ESCAPES. ADIS ALEBA, August 27. The ex-Emperor Lidjissu has escaped from Magdala, where he had had been surrounded for six months. After defeating 300 Government troops he succeeded in refuging in a neighbouring mountain. The Prime Minister has been arrested and put in chains for conspiring to overthrow the Government.