WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

PROCESS OF EXHAUSTION. THE ENEMY'S UREAT LOSSES. Rcuter Service. Received Sept. 4, 10 p.m. London, Sept. 4. Frpnch state that since the bcginn : ng of the battle of Verdun ten German divisions liave been <vitli- ; drawn. The Joshes of the enemy are • now seven divisions on both banks of the 13Ieu.se.' Therefore seventeen divisions I are in process of exhaustion by the operation-* begun rn August 20. Since the beginning of August the enemy had been obliged to withdraw thirty divisions facing the Allied army in Belgium. The enemy had altogether forty-two divisions in the Flanders battle. Therefore, in a single month the Allies had put forty German divisions out of action, and at the present time nineteen others were being reduced by the came mcliiou'. RAIDERS DRIVEN BACK. ENEMY'S AERODROMES BOMBED. Received Sept. '4, 11,30 p.m. London, Sept. 4. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our fire drove back a raiding party south-west (of La Bii=see. There is considerable I enemy artillerying northward of Yprcs. Our aeroplanes dropped three tons of boml« on the enemy's aerodromes, with gov', results. AX ALLIED WAR COUNCIL. Washington, Sept. 3. The Italian Embassy has received a cabl'j .from Home stating that an Al- | lied War Council will be held in Paris to consider the "greatly altered military s : t tation."