WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

ENEMY DEFENCES BOMBARDED. i i&HTILLEIiY ACTIVITY. ■* fleceived Jan. 19, 10.45 p.m. \ London, .lan. 19. \ Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hrrig /e- - it night-time northward of' Beaucourt. We bom- , " barded the defences eastward of the t Boia Merinei yid eastward of Ploegs--7 dert. The enemy': artillery has been active southwa/d of Sailly-Saillisol and eastward of Bethune. ■ A; Branch conurihnique states:—There Jms been an artillery duel of considerable intensity in the Vosges, Lorraine, and Soiasons sectors. The rest oi the front is quiet. BRITISH TROOP TRAINS COLLIDE. • ' Paris', Jan. !8. A collision took place between the front and tear portions of two Brifoii troop trains, owing to a coupling breaking: The carriages were crowded with rata on: furlough. Two carriages were telescoped and ten men killed and 30 i pounded. ■ \ -• IHE:LAa!IEST.:REPOKT, " Beoeivad Jan. 10, 5.50 p.m. Paris. Jan. 18. ' The latest report of the casualties in the \troop. train iccident show that •there, was 10 killed and 40 injured. The neatcb. in the debris continues. J' .' tram waa topping the hill, when *■ ? coupling broke. The momentum carr.ud the second half over the summit, and ~± it gathered .way, it dashed into the half. .Many of the fifty coaches of which the train consisted were sme&cJ. ' AN EXPLANATION NECESSARY. ... . . . London, Ja 18. *■• A German official report pay v. Wo evacuated an advanced position at Serre ('on January 12, but British attacking there yesterday sustained heavy loc-.ci. ENEMY REPULSED. , V .....' London, Jan. IS. A French communique states that after a heavy bombardment lasting I'.rec hour? the enemy made a series of recDnnaisanccs on , the. Boiß-de-Chevalicrs, en the heights of the Meuse, which were iyJHliei ' MORE GERMAN TYRANNY. Amsterdam, Jan. If. German placards at Tongres* threat- , enad that the town would be fined 50.003 marks for each man crossing the frontier. The Germans insist on Belgians w'jo are cbndemncd to 'death confessing to German, not Belgian, priests, who constantly learn secrets resulting iin arrests.