WESTERN FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1940, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT

ATTACK ON BRITISH SECTOR. ENEMY SUFFERS SERIOUS LOSSES ’ | By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, April 16. A French official war communique states: "On the part of the front held by the British, the enemy launched an attack which, was prepared and accompanied by artillery fire. This attack was repulsed and the enemy suffered serious losses. "In the Saar region our artillery fired on enemy organisations. There was activity by our reconnaissance units to the east of the Vosges." It has been announced in London that the British suffered some casualties as a result of the German attack. MANY DEAD LEFT. ATTACK BY TWO GERMAN COMPANIES. (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) PARIS. April 17. Crumbling before machine gun fire, two German companies left many dead and wounded when attempting a raid on British outposts. The raid was followed by an intensive barrage from heavy artillery., GERMAN CLAIM. BRITISH GARRISON "CUT UP." (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) BERLIN, April 17. A communique claims that shock troops raided and blew up four Allied dugouts, cut up the British garrison ofi fifty men and brought back prisoners, arms and ammunition The Official News Agency states that a German plane hit a British battleship with a bomb of the heaviest, calibre during an attack on British naval forces south-west of Norway.