LATEST WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 November 1917, Page 5

LATEST WAR NEWS.

BRITISH CAPTURE JAFFA. NOW IN OCCUPATION. Received 10.50. CAIRO, November IS. Jaffa has been occupied. A NAVAL ACTION. GERMAN SHIPS DAMAGED. 1 A GERMAN STATEMENT. BRITAIN TRIES TO BREAK THROUGH. Received 10.59. i LONDON, November IS. The Admiralty reports there is no further information regarding the Heligoland Bight operations, beyond the fact that the enemy’s light crisers were chased to within 30 miles of Heligoland, and until they were under the protection of‘the battle fleet minefields. When we retired, an enemy light cruiser was seen afire; another’af machinery appeared to be damaged. An enemy mine sweeper was sunk. We had no losses, only slight damage to ships, and the casualties were slight* A German naval communique states that strong British naval forces attempted to break into the German Bight on the morning of the 16th. Our guardships located them on the line of Horn’s Reef, Velesching. An immcdN ate encounter thrust was made by our advanced forces which repulsed them easily. We had no losses.

CENSORSHIP IN FRANCE, THE POLITICAL VEIL LIFTED. Received 10.30. PARIS, Nov 18. M. Clemenceau’s Government ig maintaining military and diplomatic censorship, but is abolishing the political censorship. Newspapers will he free to publish all documents they obtain and have full liberty of criticism, BRITISH SUCCESSFULLY RAID-i ING. : BNEMVc GUNS "ON PASS CHEN--1 DAELE Received l0.5O! ' !: LONDON- Nov 18. Sir Douglas Haig reports thA. he" Lancashire regiment and Highlanders successfully raided in the neighbourhood of Money le Preux. There is reciprocal artilleryin-:; on .the battle front, the enemy’s fire principally, being directed on positions at; Passchendaele, Langemarck, and southward of Polygon Wood.

A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. RETURNED SOLDIER SEVERELY laKIOvI INJURED. ’'A <• AUCKLAND, this day. A discharged soldier, named James S. Jackson, who returned from the war a few weeks ago, fell off the platform of a tram car on Saturday night, and rolled under one of the wheels. The car had to be lifted before he could be released. He was conveyed to the hospital and his left leg -had to be amputated at the thigh. Jackson sustained other injuries. Previous to enlisting he was employed as a seaman in the inter-colonial trade.