WESTERN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1918, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

GERMAN OFFENSIVE FORE- • CASTED. WITHIN EIGHT DAYS. Eeceived July 15, 7.50 p.m. (Paris, July 14. M. Marcel Hutin forecasts a Germai offensive within eight days on over i forty kilometres front. —Press Assoc. RHEIMS POSITION. STRENGTHENED BY RECENT SUCCESSES. Received July 15,11.40 p.m. London, July 15. The Morning Post states that th French advance in the Rouvrel sccto supplements the brilliant Australian a< tion at Hamel. Both forced the enem; from dominating high ground. The position at Amiens is now decio edly stronger than it was ten days ag< The French acquired elevations whic control the long reaches along the valle of the Avre river, which deprive the Gei mans of direct observation into Amien nine miles distant. The ground taken at Hamel achieve similar results. We also continue t reach out northward. The Australian on the Merris sector absolutely domin ate "no man's land." The unhappy Ger mans dare not show their heads. Bait ing the enemy goes on daily. Larg numbers have been killed. The Britis' irtillery is ceaselessly harassing thi lerman lines of communication.—Aus ralian Cable Association. FRENCH POSITIONS ADVANCED. London, July 14. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Hostile ai ;illery waß active north of Albert, wesl ivard of Kemmel Hill, and southwai md south-westward of Ypres. Ours wa tctive at a number of points. A French communique reports: W fought a successful action north an louth of Longpont and advanced ou >ositions eastwards. We crossed t Saviers despite enemy resistance. A wireless German official message at nits that the French have obtained fin joßsession of Castel and Auchin Farm. The Germans claim to have shot dow 168 hostile aeroplanes in June and los 53.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received July 15, 10.15 p.m. London, July 14. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We carriei tut a successful operation in the earl; norning on the 14th. English troop idvanced their line east of Dickebusc jake and prisonered over 200. Aviation report: We destroyed twclv leroplanes on the 13th and drove dow: our uncontrollable. Three of ours ar nissing. We dropped 4J -tons of bomb n the daytime, and over 1100 bombs reighing 19 tons, at night-time on enem; amps, railway lines, trains, and billets Ml the night-fliers returned. Wireless German official: We sanguii irily repulsed the attack west c aateau ThieTry. Our night-fliers ai acked the enemy railway works be iween Dunkirk, Abbeville, and Bouiogn md al9o in the region of Lillers, St. Po Joullens, Grepy-en-Vallois, and Viller Jotterets— Aus. N."Z. Cable Assoc, am leuter. Received July 15, 11.40 p.m. London, July 15. A French communique states: There : ntermittent artillery activity, especi illy in the Courcy region.—Aus. an tf.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reutcr. London, July 13. Mr. Percival Phillips says that tt sutcome of the week's work in tl Merris sector is that our positions ai ww within 500 yards of the village, coi trolling the high road and giving con plete observation of German movement —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BEMSIANS ROBBED OF FOOD. Amsterdam, July 13. There was a serious riot in Brussc owing to German officers requisitions for their own use all the vegetables i the Brussels market. The peasants pn tested, but the officers called up the so iiers, and five peasants were shot ai 13 wounded.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.