VIOLENT ATTACK REPULSED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 10 December 1914, Page 5

VIOLENT ATTACK REPULSED.

FIERCE STRUGGLE IN THE ARGONNE. BOMBARDMENT OF BELGIAN COAST RESUMED. IMPORTANT POSITION TAKEN BY ALLIES. PArJS, Dec. 9. Official. —We repulsed a violent attack iat Santelos. A very fierce struggle continues in the Argonne. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 9. The British recapturod Passchendaele LONDON, Dec. 9. A fierce night attack occurred at Dixmude on the 6th, owing to the tsiidden massing of the Germans. The -Allies replied with- hand grenades. Later they made a counter-attack with the bayonet, and rushed the German -trenches, the Germans losing heavily -and leaving many dead. The Allied fleet on Tuesday resumed "the bombardment of the Belgian coast. The capture of Vermelles is important. It gives the French a strong position commanding a considerable *tretch of country, -including Lens and Pont-a-Vendin, where a number of railways and roads converge, by which -the Germans are provisioning. A French 7.5-centimetre gun brought *lbwn a, German aeroplane at Chaumont «on Monday. - Three aviators and two aeroplanes ■were engaged at Hazebrouck. Seventeen bombs were dropped, and 24 persons were killed. Germans at Brussels have forbidden lEnglish, French, Russian, and Japanese to open their vaults in the banks, "thus preventing them from taking out personal property.