GAINS CONSOLIDATED.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1917, Page 5

GAINS CONSOLIDATED.

A SUCCESSFUL RAID. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc and Neuter. Received Oct. 7, 11.5 p.m. London, Oct. (1..

Sir Douglas Haig reports: 'Die enemy artillery lias? been more active. No infantry actions have lieen attempted. We lull troops made suecessfill raids norlh-oast of Conzeiuienurt. We have consolidated the positions gained. Our prisoners since yesterday morning number 4440, including 114 officers. FOR GERMAN EDIFICATION.

THE ART OF DISTORTING TACTS. Aus. and N.Z, Cable Assoc, and Router. Received Oct .7, 5.20 p.m. London, Oct. $. Wireless German official: The hottest points of yesterday's fighting wero at I'oeleapellc and isolated farms at the Passchendaele cross-roads, eastward of Zonncbeku Wood, and westward of Ueeelaere village and Gholuvplt. The enemy temporarily advanced over this ttne but was unable to hold the ground owing to our countcr-ntaeks, The English gains were restricted to a 6trlp of from one to one and a half metres in depth, between Poelcapelle and Becelaere. We retained Becelaere and Gheluvelt. We repulsed almost everywhere twelve French attacks at Hili 344.

FRENCH REPULSE RAIDS. A LIVELY ENGAGEMENT. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and lieuter. Received Oct., 7, 11.5 p.m. London, Oct. 0. A French communique records a lively engagement on the right bank of the Meuse. An enemy group in our advanced trenched was driven out and the line was restored. Other raids were repulsed. Our artillery caught and dispersed an enemy concentration in the region of Caurieres Wood. FRENCH PRESS EULOGISTIC, Paris, Oct. 5. All the newspapers comment in eulogistic terms upon the brilliant succcbs of the British. FRENCH ARTILLERY ACTIVE. London, Oct. 5. A French communique reports violent artillery actions on the right bank of the Meuse iu the region of Bezonvaux Hill.