HOSTILE RAIDS REPULSED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 12 February 1918, Page 5

HOSTILE RAIDS REPULSED

SUCCESSFUL AERIAL OBSERVA

TIONS

VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTIONS ON

THE MEUSE

LONDON, Feb. 10. feir Douglas Haig reports: Hostile raiders were repulsed with loss yesterday night south of Hquthulst forest. There was hostile artillerying southwest of Cambrai.

,We undertook several successful aerial reconnaisances on Saturday despite the low clouds and high winds. Nearly a ton of bombs were dropped on various targets. Their observations enabled the artillery to effectively engage hostile batteries.

Our bombing machines, of which one is missing, made a successful raid in unfavorable weather on Saturday night, dropping nearly a ton of bombs with good results on the important railway function and sidings at Courcelle&-les-Metz.

A French, communique states: There are violent artillery actions on both banks of the Meuse and in the Vosges. An enemy coup-de-main on a small post in the Argonne collapsed.