WESTERN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 February 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

BRITISH REPORT.

GREAT AERIAL AND ARTILLERY

ACTIVITY

Received 9.15

LONDON, Feb C

Sir Douglas Haig reports the enemy raided a post in the neighbourhood of Bapaume on the Cambrai road. There is great hostile artillery activity southwards of Marcoing ana northward of Bapaume. on the Cambrai road, as well as increased enemy activity northward of Lens and northeast of Ypres. Our aeroplanes dropped over three tons of explosives during the day on various targets, including ammunition dumps, and fired many thousands "oT machine-gun rounds.* We dropped over one ton and a-half last night on hostile aerodromes south-eastward of Cambrai, and on the'Menin railway station.

GERMANY'S BIG EFFORT

IMMINENT.

LONDON, Feb 5

The military experts of France and England opine that Germany's big effort is imminent. General Luberdorff's concentration of troops~"from Russia is now completed. The experts are fully confident that the Allies cannot only repulse the attacks, but are ready to take the strongest counter measures. A British-French official report says the troops are in the highest spirits. The prospect at the coming end of the winter is slacs.

PREPARING FOR THE BIG SMASH

LONDON, Feb 5

A Headquarters' correspondent states that enemy reinforcements continue to arrive on the West front, but the Allies' forces in the west also continue to increase in an ever-flowing current. The clash, when it does come, will be the most stupendous thing in point of numbers ever known.