WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1918, Page 6

WESTERN FRONT.

ENEMY PREPARATIONS,

NEW O'FFEXiSIVK IMMINENT. London, June 28. Paris military writers state that it is impossible to disguise Germany's enormous preparationsCorrespondents cm the British front call attention to immense big events. There is almost uninterrupted cannonading, exceptional aerial activity, and numerous raids by both sides with the object of disturbing the enemy and gathering information. Everywhere there is an air of expectancy. Everyone is on the qui vive. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent reports that German preI parations appear to Ibe complete. Heavy transport of troops from German bar- : Tacks and camps is going on. The gen- ! eral indications are that the main attack will be in Flanders though the enemy will be able to throw in troops simultaneously at other points. Apparently von T-udendorff intends to make a desperate effort to gain the 'ridge westward of Mont Kemmel, where his recent reinforcements include formations specially trained in hill fighting.

aerial activity. PARIS AGAIN ATTACKED. London, June 23. The Air Ministry reports: —Our aeroplanes at night attacked tie chemical works at Ludwigshafen, factories anil railway sidings at Saarbrncken, the aerodrome at Bokhen and set Are to two hangars- All returned. The enemy at night bombed one of our aerodromes, but did no damage t: the aeroplanes. A Paris official message states that groups of enemy aeroplanes attacked Paris at f0 40 p.m. yesterday and drop ed bombs. The "all clear" signal was given at midnight.—Ans.-N.Z. Gable Assn. and Renter.

ENEMY RAID REPULSED. London, June 28. Sir Douglas Haig reports: An attempted raid on a British post in the neighborhood of Moyenneville, southward of Arras, was repulsed with lor?■ There is active artillery fire in the neighborhood of Rossignol Wood, southeastward of Gommeert, where our patrols inflicted casualties. —AU3.-N.Z. Calble Assn and Reuter.

ALLIED ACTIVITY RECORDED. London. June 28. A wireless German official message saya: There was lively enemy activity northward of the Scarpe, on the Somme, westward of Soisonns, and north-wesf ward of Rheims. The enemy's observers were again seen on the Rheims Cathedral. We repuUed a strong enemy attack northward of Pt. Mihiel. We shot down five enemy aeroplanes in the past two days, which were raiding TCarlenihe, Offenburg, and the industrial region of Lorraine- Our bombing squadrons attacked Paris, and railway junctions and aerodromes on route. —Aus.N Z Cable Assn.