AUSTRIANS ON WEST FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 81, 29 December 1917, Page 7

AUSTRIANS ON WEST FRONT

ATTACK ON FRENCH POSITIONS EXPECTED ■ i CROWN PRINCE TO DIRECT OPERATIONS New York, December 27. The "New York Tribune's" Washington correspondent states that semi-offi-cial advices show that Germany's concentration on tho West front inchdas Austrinns. Army. officials ?xpect an attack on the French positions because the British are more stroni'ly held. The Crown Prince is expected to direct the operations and to endearour thus to recover the prestige' he' lost at Verdun. Tho "New York World's" Rotterdam correspondent qvotcs Major Mora'it ai writing in the "Tageblatt" that Germany will attack a vulnerable spot on the West front with clenched fisis. "A. hard Mow will be our ans'vsr to .England. , .'.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable iVssn. ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON BRITISH FRONT (Rec. December 29, 0.45 l in.) London, December 27. Sir Douglas_ Haig reports: "There is artillery activity north cf St. Gunitin, in the neighbourhood of Arras and east of Ypres."—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.Renter. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. (Rec. December 28, 7 p.m.) London, December 37. A Herman official, report states:— ""There has been lively fighting at Houthulst Wood, on the north bank of the Tjys, and in the neighbourhood of Moeuvres and Marcoing. Wβ sto-ined ■* Hβ lwo first trenches nortb-west of Bezonvaux, on a.breadth of nine hundreu metres, blew up shelters, and returned, according to orders."—Aus.N.Z Cable--Assn. Reuter. DESTRUCTIVE ATTACK ON ROULERS BRITISH AIRMEN EXPLODE AN AMMUNITION TRAIN. (Rec. December 29, 0.45 p.m.) ' Amsterdam, December' 27. The "Telegraaf" says tint bombs dropped by British airmen resulted in the devastation of tho station and yard at Itoulers and causing a terrific explosion on an ammunition train, killing many Germans and a number of Belgians working as forced labourers in the yard. The atmospheric (listuit)ance caused by the explosion brought down a British machine.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ATTACKS ON CAURIERES WOOD HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. (Bee. December 28, 7 p.m.) London, December 27. A French communique states-.—"The nrijiHery struggle continues north of the Caurieres VTood. Tho German attach yesterday was very violent. After a powerful artillery preparation the Germans threw two; battalions into tbe assault. In the second attempt .they reacned our position, but were driven out. - The number -of corpses testifies to the heaviness of the enomy losses." —Abs.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.