SIX ENEMY RAIDS.
INTENSE ENEMY BARRAGES. EFFICACY OF BRITISH ARTILLERY. GALLANTRY OF PORTUGUESE, Reuter Service. Received March 4, 10.45 p.m. London, March 4. Reuter's correspondent at the British Headquarters states that between St. Quentin and Polygon Wood there were isix enemy raids on Friday night, also two enemy attacks. Particular features of the raids were the intensity of tile enemy barrages, and the promptitude and volume of our own artillery in response, the almost exclusive use of the rifle for repulsing the attacks, and the disinclination of the picked German troops to press home their attack. The biggest attack was against the Portuguese on a front of 3000 yards, between La Bassee road and Nanquissart, wherein a whole enemy battalion assaulted. After a whirlwind bombardment, fierce hand-to-hand fighting occurred, but a dashing Portuguese coun-ter-attack caught the enemy, who were still at grips in the trenches. AUSTRALIANS REPULSE RAID. A BRILLIANT COUNTER-ATTACK. Reuter Service. Received March 5, 1 a.m. London, March 4. Reuter's correspondent at headquarters, continuing, says: The raid upon the Australians was preceded by a terrific bombardment, and was brilliantly repulsed. The attackers numbered 200; the principal point of attack being a little post, tiie garrison of which made a valiant defence, but the enemy carried the post and passed on to company headquarters. Here a counter-attack was organised by the platoon commander, who scattered the German's. During the raid there were calls in English by the raidfl'rs for help, one being from the commander, who was found dead. When the position was restored, twenty-five enemy corpses were found hanging to the wire. SEAPLANE SHEDS RAIDED. SOME EFFECTIVE WORK. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Marcli 4, 10.45 p.m. London, March 3. The Admiralty reports that aircraft successfully raided seaplane sheds at Ostend, and that a number of hits were obtained from an altitude of 150 to 300 feet. There were also three direct hits on an anti-aircraft battery in the vicinity. WHAT THE GERMANS SAY. London, March 3. German official: Eastward of Rheims we forced our way into Fort Pompelle, which was destroyed. We recaptured sections of the trenches south-eastward of Tahure, and stormed trenches southward of HaucourtWe penetrated the American trenches north-eastward of Seicheprey, Inflicting heavy casualties.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19180305.2.30.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1918, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
372SIX ENEMY RAIDS. Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1918, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.