WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

1 UNPARALLELED ARTILLERY I ACTIVITY. GTOTS HEARD IN LONDON. United Service. Received June S, 5.50 p.m. London, June 5. The artillery preparation on the northern British front continues with unparalleled intensity, the guns being heard in London, 1®) miles distant, and windows and crookery vibrating in Kent and Sussex. A faint thudding was heart! at Harrow. Received June 6, 8 p.m. Paris, Juno ft. A French communique states: Intermittent) artillery actions took place on the greater part o£ the ftont, being •specially lively in Belgium and HurtebUe sector of the VaucUrc plateau. AIR REPRISALS. London, June 6. 'A French communique says: Aa attack at night time restored to us parts of the trenches in which the enemy gained a footing yesterday, north-west of Froideinont Farm. As a reprisal for the enemy bombardment of the open town of Bar-le-Duc on May "27, seven of our aeroplanes on the night of June 3 dropped a ton of bombs on Treves. Our air squadron also dropped fifteen tons of bombs on the aerodromes at Morhange, 'Habsheim, Prescati and Sisson. and severely damaged the sheds. They also bombed several railway stations and munition depots, causing fires and explosions. Six German aeroplanes were brought down, and seiven others were forced down, I damaged, in their own lines,

FRENCH SECRET SESSION. Pariß, June 5. The. Order of the Day as the outcome of the naaet session declares that France expects from the war the liberation of her invaded territories, the return of Alsace-Lorraine and just reparation for damage, apart from any thought of her conquest or subjection of foreign peoples. The Order further considers that the efforts of tho Allied armies, will break down Prussian militarism and secure durable guarantees for the peace and independence of small and great peoples by the organisation of a sooiety of nations. Only the Socialists voted against the resolution, M. Ribot asked the Socialists to vote for the Order to show the world that, the manoeuvring which had taken place to break up the unity of France had not succeeded.

BRITISH RAIDS. , London, June 5. Admiralty naval aeroplanes bombardad the aerodrome at Szeniswestrem on Sunday night, with good results. Seaplanes simultaneously attacked the seaplane base ati Zeebrugge, and bombed the shipping at Bruges. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We drovo [ off raiders south-east of Lenß and south !of Armenticres. We successfully raided [jsoutb and east of .Ypres.