WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

FRENCH OPERATIONS. » _____ NANCY 7 BuMBEIJ 15V ENEMY. A. and N.Z- Cable Assn. and Router. London, Feb. 10. French communique: We repnisecj attempted raids hi tlie'Champagne district and in Upper Alsace. We raided Vauqubnis, west of Verdun. Enemy aeroplanes bombed Reteson and Nancy, killing and wounding civilians. i /SRIAL ACTIVITY. 21 ENEMY MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN. Received Feb 18, 11.15 pm. London, Feb. ISSir Douglas Haig reports mutual raiding, also hostile artillerying in several sectors. British aeroplanes yesterday bombed a number of billets, railway station?, and bodies of troops, Uwenty-oiie enemy machines were downed, while antiaircraft guns downed an additional three, one of them being a large bomber with live occupants Five British machines are missing. British aviators last night dropped four hundred bombs in the n<"4>hborhood of Ohent, Touruai,, and Laon, ajji! also bombed Coiifluns railway station. MINOR OPERATIONS, London, Feb. IT Sir Douglas Haig reports that patrols took a few prisoners north-eastward of ffargieruot. There lias been hostile artillery fire in the neighborhood of Passchcndflele. A French communique reports fairly considerable reciprocal artillery activity at night time in the region of Clmvignon and east of Rheims. In the Champagne an enemy surprise attack east o.f Auberiv<* was without resultAMMUNITION DUMP BOMBED. London, Feb- 17. The Admiralty reports: Our aircraft dropped many bombs on the Zuydwege dump on Saturday and a (ire started in the centre of the objective. All the ma-, chines returned. PROTEST AOATNST ARREST OF .JUDCiIiS. Amsterdam, Feb. 17. The Dutch Government has protested against the arrest of three Belgian judges, as the result of the judges' strike against Cermany's sham elections for the Flanders' Council. BELGIAN DETERMINATION. Paris, Feb. 17Tlie Belgian Council of Ministers congratulates the Flemish and Walloon senators, deputies, and magistrates on heroically resisting the enemy's attempts to divide the nation through the aoealied Flemish Council, and eulogises the unfaltering determination of the people to continue the struggle for the integral restoration of Belgian independence-