WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1918, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

GERMAN RAID AT LOOS. REPELLED BY BRITISH. London, Jan. 2. Sir Douglas Ha:'g reports: The enemy attempted a raid early in the morning north-eastward of Loos, but was repulsed. One thousand and eighteen Germans were taken prisoner during December. Our aeroplanes last night droppu' a hundred bombs on billets in the neighborhood of Roulers and Menin. Several direct hits were observed. THE GERMANS POWERLESS. TO GAIN SUCCESS ON BRITISH FRONT. Paris, Jan. 2. Marcel ITutin. in the Echo de Paris, says that the lesson of Cambrai has been of the greatest value to the British command. Ludendorff is now forced to admit that the famous storming . troops from Hanover, Brunswick, and Rhine pro- \ nce« have been compelled to relinquish most of the ground they i ad taken.

The chief mistake of Sir Julian Byng's | attack was tlmt the cavalry did not intervene in time to push home the preliminary success. Later, the British Guardsmen held their own against tliu whole German army. The Guardsrien unaidtn freed a great number of prisoners and recaptured most of the guns and all the tanks left lehind in the withdrawal, Mr. Hutin adds: The spectacle cf t::s Germans powerless to obtain any *iAce*i on the British front is extremely comforting. BIG RAIDING PARTIES DISPERSED BY BRITISH j I.i'ndnn, .Tun 2. | Sir Douglas TTaig reports: We dis- ! persed big raidins parties I'.' the vicinity of l.ens, at HI! ill, uiid north of Puss-ch<-iulftele. PRISONERS AND GUNS. CAPTURED BY BRITISH IS 15117. Received Jan. 3, 8.40 p.m. London, Jan. 2. During 1017 the British captured 73,000 prisoners, 149 heavy and 382 field guns, 648 trench mortars, ahd 2,0.19 machine-guns on the West front. AN ASTONISHING ACCIDENT. A TRAIN ENVELOPED IN CHLORINE . Paris, Jli". 2. An astonishing accident occurrocl at I.ycns to a passenger train which ran into a large cylinder of chlorine wli.'ch ha', fallen from a goods vragg-m. The hain w«a enveloped in flames. Sixty had to be sent to hospital.