WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

RASH BAVARIANS. EXPLOITS OF QUEENSLANDERS. SECRET OP SUCCESS OP OFFENSIVE. Received .Sept. 26, 8.15 p.m. London, Sept. 25. Mr. Murdoch, headquarters correspondent, writes that prisoners state that a Bavarian division volunteered to take tho Australians, in consequence of being given additional leave, the best food and equipment, and other privileges They now deeply regret "their rashness. He mentions that a Queensland officer captured seventeen Germans singlehanded, and that a brother of the Queenslander threw a bomb killing four and capturing twenty-four others in the same dugout. The secret of the success of the advance was the speed wherewith che men followed the barrage. VIOLENT COUNTER-ATTACK. BRITISH LINES INVADED. LINE RE-ESTABLISHED LATER. EXTENSIVE RAIDING OPERATIONS. Aus. and N.Z. Cabte Assoi.-. and Reuter Received Sept. 20, 0.40 p.m. London, Sept. -2(S. Sir Douglm Haig reports: Hinder cover of a thick mist the enemy made a powerful counter-attack at dawn on our positions on the ridge, between Tower Hamlets and 'Polygon Wood, and were repulsed on the bulk of our front ; but northward of the Ypres-Menin road and southward of Polygon Wood they penetrated our lines for short distances on narrow fronts. Fierce fighting continued during the morning. Another heavy counter-attack at midday failed to mak'o any further progress, and early in the afternoon they were ejected and wo reestablished our line on the whole front. In an attack on the enemy we raided a post southward of Queant. Four tons ot bombs were dropped on aerodromes northward and southward of Ronlers, near Cambrai, and an important railway centre eastward of Tournai. We also bombed an ammunition dump northward of Cambrai. and billets eastward of Lens. Eight enemy machines were brought down and four of ours are missing.

TERRIBLE ENEMY LOSSES. TEX DIVISIONS WITHDRAWN. SHELL FIRE FROM GUNS IN REAR. Received Sept. 26, 9.40 p.m.

London, Sept. 26. _ Mr. Philip Oibbs states that the terrible losses are forcing the German high command to realise that there must be a. limit to the bloody sacrifices demanded of the infantry. Some ten divisions have been withdrawn from th<> line, owing to losses, which made them worthless until they are filled by new drafts. The enemy is now relying on heavy random shell-fire to check our men. His batteries are on the move getting into positions further back, beyond our observations. Nevertheless, the Germans have heavy guns enough to fling over plenty of heavy stuff.

, RAILWAY STATIONS BOMBED. ARTILLERY WORK ON FRENCH FRONT. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Sept. 27, 1.45 a.m. London, Sept. 2G. A French communique reports: The artillery strduggle has been lively on the Hurtebise, Craonne, Bojs, and Chaumo regions. There has been no infantry action. French aviators dropped ten tons of bombs on railway stations ui, Cambrai, Luxembourg, and Longuyon, A SUCCESSFUL RAID. London, Sept. ;!5. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Wo made successful raids eastward of Epthy. An enemy attempt to rush one of our forward posts north-eastward of Lens was repulsed. The enemy's artillery was active eastward and northward of Ypres. GERMANS DISLIKE THE MEDICINE. Amsterdam, Sept. 2.), German correspondents descv : be the latest battle as more terrible than its predecessors. It has assumed Gargantuan proportions and the English are still fighting nyM ote dlj still striking stubbornly. The forms o» warfare are assuming wilder and more monstrous shapes. FRENCH REPULSE ATTACK. London, Sept. 25 A French communique says: Tin enemy attacked in the direction of Beaumont, but, despite the extensive usfe of flame-throwers, was repulsed with heavy loss.

aerodromes bombed. London, Sept. 23 Tho Admiralty reports naval aircraft dropped a large number of bomb? on the sheds, hangars and aeroplanes ftt Barssenairs aerodrome. SHORT SHRIFT FOR SPIES, Amsterdam, Sept. 2.i. Tho Telegraaf states that during tho past there weeks thirty persons have been shot at Ghent for espionage.