WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

BELGIAN OrtKATiOWS. SECURES ■MERMAN' TRENCH. Lyndon, March ]4. A Belgian communique slates: At't'nr a violent bombardment our troom gaiii"d a footing in (be Herman trcn- < lit'-, south-cast- of Lnmbiirtzyde. We <e advanced, an;! In violent hand-to-hand fighting slopped i.lio counter-at-tack. There were artillery actions on the whole front yesterday and to-day, which were violent in the Nieuport and Dixmude regions.

A ABSUIiD OFFER. London, March 1!. Tlie British Weekly reports thai. Hermany contemplates tempting France by olfering to guarantee the large French loans to Russia and thus appeal to <he so-calied avarice of the French pens-ant".

The British Weekly adds: '•-.Fra.ncf will repudiate flic offer with scorn"

BRITISH .SUCCESSES. London, Miireh It. Sir Douglas Tin;-.; lvporis: We raided the enemy's trenches south-eastward of Kpchy, and successfully repulsed a i-aid nortliward of i,he Ypres-Si.aden railway.

Artillery activity on both sides southwestward of Cambrai has increased. Hostile artillery is active in the Neuve Cliapelle and Fauquissart sectors.

A FAIRLY LIVELY STRUGGLE.

Received. March 15, lft.] 5 p.m.

London, March 14. A French communique report- a fairly lively struggle on the whole iront. Wireless German official: We brought down seventeen enemy aeroplanes last night, whereof three were en rout-.s for Freibuig.