VIOLENT CANNONADE ON BRITISH LINE.
NIEUPORT BOMBARDED WITH 16IN. HOWITZERS.
PROGRESS IN FLANDERS AND THE AISNE.
(Received 10.15 a.m.) PARIS, March 17. An official communique says that the Belgians made further progress on the Yser and repulsed a counter-attack. The British front was subjected to a violent artillery cannonade. We captured an important eminence along a front of 500 metres north of Mesnil, in the Aisne, and repulsed several counter-attacks between Bolante and Four de Paris. * A French aviator dropped bombs on the barracks at Colmar. The Germans are furiously bombarding Nicuport with loin, howitzers.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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95VIOLENT CANNONADE ON BRITISH LINE. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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