GUNS ACTIVE IN FLANDERS

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 5

GUNS ACTIVE IN FLANDERS

f ALLIED HELP TO -RUSSIA i - '■-••' j EFFECT OF THE MURMAN LANDING j YA; J¥ Wg, guns ° both sides are very active on the Flanders front, but there has been no important infantry activity. ;. British raiding parties have been very active, the largest opera- '■■'* ™A fhf* -ii arried ut at Mcr ' whei:e a commanding position . near the village and commanding the road was reached. The f y Australian troops were responsible for this operation. The French have carried out a series of successful little operations eastward of the Villers Cotterets Forest, driving the ..,.,.-Germans from the fringes of that bastion, capturing the village of Castel, entering the enemy front and Longpont, and forcing . y-a way across the little River Savieres. A depth of a mile and .:, ;v a-quarter was reached in the main advance, and 500 prisoners [Wcic LetK6ll. The Allied advance in Albania continues, the enemy having- - v been driven back to the Decoli River, where he is now attempt- : , ; ,- ing to make a stand. A total of 1800 prisoners has been taken ; since the operation began. - i The Allied landing on the Murman coast is causing great A : perturbation to the Germans and their Bolshevik allies" but is ,-g welcomed by other parties in Russia. The Czechoslovaks are still extending the area they occupy in Siberia, and the i; Bolshevik influence there, as well as in Russia itself, is rapidly waning. * J

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