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OFFICIAL REPORTS. SUCCESSFUL FRENCH RAIDS. GERMANS BOMB NANCY. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received Feb. 15, 1.55 a.m. London, Feb. 14. A French communique states: There has been considerable artillery activity in the region of .Pinon and north-west of Rbeims. We made successful raids east of Auberive and the Vosges. Enemy aircraft dropped bombs on Nancy, three civilians being killed and five injured. A wireless German official report says: We repulsed a strong reconnoitring detachment northward of Lens and northward of Moignonbach. We repelled, \vith heavy losses, a French attack between Flirey and the Moselle. We bombed Nancy as a reprisal for the air raid on Saarbrucken. THE COMING ATTACK. GERMAN'S TRAINING HARD. London, Feb. 13 Mr. Percival • Phillips states that information extracted from, prisoners reveals that the German infantry is being trained in musketry at many new ranges. Large artillery schools have been established in Belgium, at one of which 20,000 gunners are instructed aim- j uitaneously. Evidently machine-guns, tanks and gas will figure prominently in the German attempt. Many new railways have b"en built, including monorail lines for conveying ammunition. AGAI?.'ST THE 3RJTICH FRONT. AMERICAN VIEWS. ' Washington, Feb. 13. Unofficial advices state that a great German drive is planned for next month directed particularly at the British front. Semi-official opinion i,; that Russia's defection does not aid Germany. Owing to the absence of a treaty Germany supplies from the 'Ukraine arc doubtful.
A SWIGS IWASIOi-J. IF IT SUITS HINDISNBURG. 'New York, Fob. 13. Mr. Simons, in a further dispatch to the United (Press trom Berne, says: "The Swiss believe the Allies will win this year if the west front holds. Hinderiburg does not expect Austria's help, as it is wobbly, and the Emperor fears to send many Austrians to the west front. % "Ludendorff has re-organised the German army, and has probably 200 divimust retain troops on the east front and sions ready for the offensive. I am informed the Germans have completed plans to invade Switzerland if such a eourso Is necessary. H]indenburg is massing troops and'ammunition against the French right flank, and the Swiss are asking whether the treaty of 1815 will be the next scrap of paper. "Germans in Zurich openly boast that they could smash the Swiss army in 48 hours. The Swiss believe Hincfenburg will not hesitate to invade Switzerland if ho considers it advisable. Ths country is alive with German agents, trying,to start a Swiss revolution." SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. IN AIR AND ON LAND. London, Feb. 13. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We made a successful raid south-eastward of Hargieourt. There were patrol encounters south-eastward o"f Lens, and hostile artillery activity at Epehy and Y.pres. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our aeroplanes yesterday dropped over a ton of bombs on various targets behind the lines. They also raided Germany today, bombing the town of Orenburg, near Strassburg. Details have not yet been received.
A French communique reports: There [is reciprocal artillery activity in the j Champagne, on the right bank of the Meuse arid in the Vosg*s. We dropped 0000 kilograms of bombs on enemy depots and railway stations, notably on a railway station between Metz and Sablons, where a fire broke out.
TRAINING OF PICKED TROOPS. A NEW uMACniNE-GUN. Received Feb. 14, 830 p.m. ■London, Feb. 13. Dr. Hamilton Fyfe, the Daily Mail's correspondent at states that the German preparations for an early spring offensive include the training of picked troops seventy or eighty miles behind the front, over areas resembling the coming battlefield. They are employing new light machine-guns of | a quarter of an inch We and firing 400 shots per minute.
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