AIR FORCES ACTIVE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16162, 16 March 1918, Page 9

AIR FORCES ACTIVE.

DISASTROUS RAID ON COBLENZ,

EASTERN SITUATION STILL OBSCURE.

MORE ABOUT THE OCEAN RAIDER

4th YEAR—227th DAY

THE WESTERN THEATRE, j

FIGHTS IN FLANDERS. IUUTISH AND BELGIAN SUCCESSES. Cable. —Press Association.— Copyright.) (Australian aud N.Z. Cabta Association.) (Keuter's Tc'.ogTaxns.) LONDON". March 14. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— •'Wo raided tho enemy s trenches south-east of Epehy, and successfully repulsed a l aid northward of the \ prcsStadcn railway. . „„minrv "There has been reciprocal artilieiy activity south-west of Cambrai, and increased hostile artillery tiro in tho Neuve Chappello and Vauquissart sectors." . , A Belgian communique states:— "After a violent bombardment, our troops gained a footing in the German trenches south-east of Lombaerteyde. "We r©-advanced, and in violent hand-to-hand fighting stopped a coun-ter-attack. . ' - "There were artillery actions on the wholo front yesterday and to-day, being particularly Violent in the Nieuport nnd Dixmude regions." ON THE FRENCH FRO^'T. LONDON.. March 14. -V French communique states that there is marked artillery activity m the Argonnc and on the right bank of tne Meuse. Another French communique states: "There is a fairly lively artillery strugglo on the whole front." WAR LORDS TO VISIT FLANDERS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, 'March 14. The Kaiser, the Crown Prince, Marshal von Hmdonburg, and General Ludendorff are coming to Brussels at tho end of the week to visit the Flanders front in connexion -with the impending offensive, which will probably be most violent at Ypres. , The Germans' next objective will b< Dunkirk. • EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. 1 (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Iteuter'a Telegrams.) LONDON, March 14. An East African official message states:—A column from Fort Amelia expelled an enemy detachment from Poluvu, ■westward of Meza. There are indications that many native troops are deserting from the enemy forces.