THE WEST FRONT BRITISH OPERATIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 67, 17 September 1917, Page 7

THE WEST FRONT BRITISH OPERATIONS

SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS IN YPRES SECTOR

EAIDS AT VARIOUS POINTS:

(»DB. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUIEK.)

LONDON, 15th September. Sir Douglas Haig reports: —On the Ypres front the Londoners ers have carried out a successful operation northward of Inverness Copse, capturing- one of the enemy's strong points at little cost. The Durhams successfully raided the enemy's lines westward of Cherisy. Our casualties were slight.

The Portuguese repulsed the enemy raiders in the neighbourhood of Neuve Chapelle. The enemy left a number of dead and wounded. We repulsed without loss enemy raiders southward of Armentieres. ...

Despite cloudy weather and a wind favouring the enemy's airmen,' we dropped bombs on a railway station northward of Charleroi, and oh railway stations, billets, and encampments nearer the enemy's lines. We brought down nine machines. Four of ours are missing. ' '■

Later, reports state : We have . made progress and secured prisoners in the neighbourhood of the Winnipeg crossroads, north-east of St. Julien. -

The enemy's artillery is active on the Lens sector, and there is a considerable amount of reciprocal artilleiy firing eastward of Ypres.

Despite adverse weather conditions, our aeroplanes dropped eighty bombs on the enemy's billets eastward of Lens', and attacked ,the enemy's troops in the open and in their trenches with machineguns. Tliree of our machines are missing- , We have improved our position eastward of Westhoek. An. attack by the enemy on the ground we gained northeastward of St. Julien failed. The hostile artillery is active northward of Langemarck. (Received September 17, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 16th September. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We again raided"T!berisy (Arra3 front), and penetrated far into its western outskirts. We drove off raiders north of Lens, and repulsed a counterattack north of Inverness Copse, in which the enemy made an effort to retake a strong point we captured yesterday.