WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

A SUCCESSFUL RAID. UttKr LOTS ADVANCED. MOB OT CHATKi© TBEEBST, Baeaftad Jtma 23, Up.m, Loadoo, June 81 (11.40 pjn) . Bir Douglas Haig reports: In * raid M the night of the 20th, northward of the Searpe, Swttith troop* penetrated fko enemy trendies, inflicting heavy casualties. The enemy's gairison waa deefnyad. London, Jane £ (428 pjn). j Enemy raids ill the region of Bellow, TJtetf Akace, were repulsed, and an am? pott aonth-oaat of St. Ilanr m captured. London, Jane 22. The Aiairaltj reports that between the 17th and 19th aireraft dropped, with gfcld results, ouMllLu eft boDbf J on firngea and Ostend, the docks at Zeebrugge, St Denis, Wegtnnn, and Mariaolter aerodromes, and elsewhere in Belgian, and alio attacked enemy shipftof, ootaiaiag dmet hit*, on* being on board a destroyer. WtuJaaa German official:—The earn/ maintained v»lent reconnoitiing thrusts on the whole of Prince Bappraeht's (Nat, but everywhere were repulsed. A hospital building at the Veale Valley has t#ite recently been the objective ot enemy air raids London, Jtme 22 (3-23 üb.) Worth-west of Chateau Thierry, we advanced our line and Improved our position*. Washington. June 22. Al official denial is given to the CerMan claim that they penetrated the American lines deeply. It is stated the operation was eonftnad to a raid, with no canaltiei.—Reuter. TERRIBLE GERMAN LOSSES. VON HUTUEK REPRIMANDS OVFICJEBB. FAILURE TO BSSAK THBOUQH. Received Jon 23, 5J5 p.m. Pans, June 22. A* examination of prisoner* reveals 1 .the terrible losses on the part of the <kraans in the recent offensive. The tS3rd Battalion only mustered 35 men per company after the Montdidier Wttle. 30 men in each company being killed by French aviators, flyin? low. Other units lost 75 per cent, and alt their m* chine-guns. They also lost two-thirds of thalr officers After the battle General von Hotter reprimanded the officers of the 106 th Division, which lost 3000, saying that the losses were excessive, and blaming the non-coms for not maintaining discipline. He added that if they could not do better they must abandon all hope of breaking through to Paris and Calais—Press Assoc DEFENCE OF PARIS. JfAH-SIQHTED PBECAUTIQHB. Received June 23, 6.5 pjn. London, June tL The French Government is determined to look ahead more effectually than in 1914. Therefore all Parisians whoae work does not keep them in the city an invited to leave the capital. This is not a panic seamr* tat a farsighted precaution. Then is no question of Paris being besieged, and atffl „ Ims that it «01 bo invaded, though ttm k a possibility of it being lfc*Qed by long range and other now guns.— . Pleas Assoe.

AMERICANS HOLD 2S MILES. y». fßfliy TO T * TJf BY SEFTStfBEE. BmiHd June 23, U pjn. Htw York, June 2L "flu AmMini are now holding 28 of {he fighting front in Fruc*. The Um Mi br tM Aatiieut ■ Vnata w flliKhl into nnmeroo* mc&m. JUmntethre CWdwdl infomM a HfflSrfwDtetnn t!»t the h£ United State **• eonowed, wold begia aazt Sept«nber.—Pr*«» AmMittta. fecerred JUM 2». , Lm&M. Time ®f 9 5 !? '. soWnJSSir «2Sd £ aasrsaa—a