WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

Matrol encounter. FRENCH REPULSE UNEJIY. __ ' ■ Wellington, May 25. T6e High Commissioner reports under flats London, May 24 (3.25 pjm.) ' Sir Utniglaa Haig reports:—We took a. few prisoners during the night as a, result of a patrol encounter eastwards pf Levertuis. : .' French , official, —On the Vauclerc Plateau yesterday a German attack, following <>on a violent bombardment, was . inuhediately arrested aid thrown back on jMa liencfcea after serious losses. The prisoners taien since Tuesday belong to "AiX Teguments from different, divisions. Since May 1 the unwounded Germans taken prisoner between Soissons and Auberwe niutaber 9800. - ARTILLERY DUEL. COKBIDERABLE:. ATRIAL ACTIVITY. • 'faceiyed May 20, 12.36 ajn. . . London, May 25. A French communique states: There J* &n artillery duel, intermittently vioIriit, in, the regions of Vauclerc mill, tlie plateau and Chevreaux. During the night our aeroplanes dropped ~ 2200 kilogrammes of bombs upon the ' railway station in the region of Bethel. 1 Fires broke out. 'field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig' re- > ports: .Machine-gun fire drove off a Taid in the neighborhood of Aririentieres. Aerial activity has increased. On Wednesday eleven German machines were % three or ours are missing. GEPM4NS HEMOVBfG CTVILIAKS. • ■ Amsterdam, May 24. A,; .Maastricht newspaper states that the . Germans have removed the civil of liege to Antwerp. The reasons are unknown. Measures are . also in readiness to remove civilians en : masse from the Ghent and Tournai' . region.-' It is believed the Germans are {Mpariqg' for a. further retirement. 'lßffirCH FAEPH IK AMERICA.

. Paris, May 24. M. Vivjaiu, in 'an interview, said that Erases could count on the United States exercising her full material and •oral strength in the, service of right. '- TOBMSB LEGION'S EXHXHTS. i Paris, May 24. Tie Foreign Legion, in which there tre 51 nationalities, la mentioned in Jispateheg for the fifth time for making free April Vt the bulk of the gains •ertam in the Auberive region, including the capture! of Auberive. The Legion lougM continuously for six days against Bindenburg's picked troops and threw SO,OOO grenades alone until their objectives Were gained.