WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

- v AIR LOSSES FOR DECEMBER. London, January 2. The December air losses on the West fttnt were 83 Germans, 10 British and 21 French. MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES ' London, Jan. 2. ReM-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a Avspateh, mentions staff-officer* Oner.il Birdwood, General Godley, Major Lajnpen, and Lieutenant Stocker, also Captain Finch, of the New Zealand Veterinary Department, and 129 other New Zealand officers and men. [Major Lampen is well known in New Plymouth, having been a staff officer • in the Taranaki district under the Territorial system, stationed at Stratford and Hawera. Lieutenant Stoeker is a brother of Mr. H Stocker.] PBEPARING FOR DECISIVE EFFORTS. London, Jan. 2. Field-Marshal Sir Dough? Haig is visiting Paris and conferring with Generals Lyantey and Nivello. In the Echo de Paris, It. Hntin says the Anglo-French cri preparing for great decisive efforts. A GERMAN REPORT, London, Jan. 2. A German message states:—\Vt repulsed English hand-grenade attacks at Ypres and raided trenches in th. Ar- ' gonne and Mouse sectors. BATTvrVr, pTtrols Received Jan. 3. S.,iO p.m. London, Jan 3. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We drovi Back patrol which were attempting to enter our trenches ; at Vermellei and northward of Ypres. A French ommunique states:—There has been a iveh artillery duel between Hardamvat -nd Benzonvana, .nd inter-, nittent iking elsewhere,