WESTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 December 1917, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

BRITISH REPULSE RAIDS. i f - LONDON, December 10. Sir Douglas Haig jreports outpost encounters west of Graincourt. An attempted raid southward of * Lens was repulsed. Enemy artillery is more active in the Messines sector. Aeroplanes bombed hostile billets. TRENCH COMMUNIQUE. LONDON, December 10. There have been fairly lively artillery actions at Sapeginall, Maisons de Champagne and. on the right of the Meuse. AMERICANS IN TRANCE. WASHINGTON, Dee. 9. The latest "official figures show that the United State's army in France v -comprises 1,360,000, or, including marines and auxiliaries, one and a half millions. HINDENB URG ’ S PLANS. AMSTERDAM, Dec." 10. Hindenburg"a‘nd Ludendorffi conferred with Ilerthlirig, regarding the terms to be imposed on Russia; also Hmdenburg’s nAv .scheme to smash *e British, French, and Italians before the Americans can be effective. The continued great rush of men and material westward is reported. Hindenburg is reported to have said: If we sign peace at Paris we can force almost any terms on the French and British.