WESTERN FRONT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 354, 14 February 1917, Page 5

WESTERN FRONT.

FURTHER BRITISH SUCCESSES ANOTHER 600 YARDS OCCUPIED. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] London, Feb. 13. _ Sir Douglas Haig report s : W e further progressed yesterday in the neighbourhood of the BeaucourtPuisieux road. We occupied 600 yards of trenches without diffiuclty. A counter-attack southward of Serve Hill was caught by our artillery barrage and easily repulsed. We entered the enemy’s line at a number of places and exploded an ammunition dump south-east of Armentieres.

TROOPS IN SNOW SHIRTS. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] London, Feb. 13. Mr. P. Gibbs (the “Daily Chronicle’s correspondent) humorously explains the German communiques with reference to British snow shirts. He says that the troops at the front were recently enlivened by curious stories of officers shopping in French villages and buying up ladies’ nightdresses. The Canadian trenches echoed with laughter when a hundred brawny men donning the nightdresses in the bright moonlight came out on the snow-covered No Man’s Land- Many xvhite robes were stained red before the adventure ended, but the Germans, glimpsing the fantastic figures, quickly sur-

rendered or were slain, and the socalled “pierrots” returned lightbringing prisoners. The Gordons carried out a similar successful raid, wearing white smocks and white-painted helmets.

THE FRENCH REPORT

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] Paris, Feb. 13. A communique states : There has been intermittent reciprocal artillerying on the Bezange sector in the Vosges.

THE GERMAN REPORT.

[“ admiralty per wireless press.”] (Received 14, 12.15 p.m.) London, Feb. 13. A German official message states: Numerous enemy reconnoitring advances between Ypres and Arras failed.