SOISSONS AND RHEIMS BOMBARDED.
{ FRENCH ADVANCE NORTH OF MESNIL
BOMBS DROPPED OK COLMAB BARRACKS. WELLINGTON, this day. Ihe High Commissioner reports under date of London, March 17, 4.55 p.m.: Paris reports state that the Belgians progressed on the Veer, repulsing a German counter-attack. North of Arras the enemy unsuccessfully counter-attacked a trench on a spur of a hill at Notre Dame de Lorette. Poissons and Rheima were bombarded, two shells reaching the Rheims ( in the Champagne, north of Mesnil, we captured on a front of about 500 metres an important ridge held by the enemy. A French aviator dropped bombs on Golmar barracks.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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