WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

A FURTHER GAIN. Enonr attacks driven off. GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY. jftDf. Bnd N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter. Bcc«ived Sept. I'2, 7.30 pjn. Lo:idon, Sept. 12. The Northumberland} gained a further 400 yards of trench in the neighborhood of Villeret We drove off the enemy's do— formation attacks against our new PgritioM, which we are consolidating. Them feaa been great aerial activity. We downed ten enemy machines. ' A Freoeh communique states: Active artillery duels are proceeding in Belgium, at the Casemates plateau, and on both l£as of tin M«we. , SDKS BOMBARD HOSPITAL. London, Sept. 11. A French communique says: German arropbuM* last night bombed the region ai Dunkirk; a hospital was bombed and tf women wounded. MINOR OPERATION'S. London, Sept. 11. 8b Douglas Haig reports: We captured prisoners during local fighting near Villeret and aouth-eutvaid of Hargicourt The Admiralty states that naval aircraft operations have been restricted lately owing to unfavorable weather. We bombed Houtttve aerodrome. All our machines returned safely. GERMANY'S WASTING STRENGTH New York, S*pt. 11. Advices from Paris state that Germany had 14 million men at the beginning of the war, of whom 10,600,000 'nave since served. There are now 5$ millions ■t the front, while 4} millions represent tfo fflfflf W—, prisoners and missing. A GERMAN REPORT. London, Sept. 11. \ wireless German official message ssya:—We repuked the English advances south-east of Langemarck and northward of Freienburg. Fresh flght)b| w... Villeret ended in our i&vor, A counter-attack repulsed the French who penetrated southward of Wavrille Wood. Other attempts failed and we pushed our line forward at some points.