WESTERN FRONT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17206, 28 June 1916, Page 7

WESTERN FRONT.

Yprcs salient, which ha» been held by British troops for nearly two yearsTho officer! of one of tho Anzac battalions at mess expressed what I believe is the general" wish of the whole force, when they said to uie to-day. referring to the tremendous bombardments which we have heard at intervals throughout tho week from tho far north. ‘ Tt is tho Canadians who should bo in the limelight now.’ ” GERMAN REPORTS. ACTIVITY ON BRITISH FRONT. 1 AMSTERDAM, June 26. A German communique states:— There has been considerable fighting and activity in the last two days on our front opposite the British and the northern'French wing. IN THE ARGONNE. enemy attacks repulsed. Tho High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, June 26. In tho Argonne the enemy attempts on small posts at la Fillo Morto wore repulsed by grenades.

THE BRITISH LINES. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. ENEMY’S LINE ENTERED AT TEN POINTS. THE ANZACS PRAISEDBy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received June 27, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, June 27. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—A number of successful night raids penetrated the hostile lines in ten different places, inflicting considerable casualties. Our casualties tvere very slight. The Munster Fusiliers and the Anzacs made particularly successful raids There was a good deal of artillery work on both sides on Sunday. Our guns inflicted considerable damago in many P'aoes, causing four large explosions behind the lines between Pozieres and iuontauben. Our artillery was again active to-dav, damaging the hostile delt-nsivo works, notably at Longueval, Gommecourt, Giveiichy-on-Golndio, north M the Loos salient and cast of W lcltje. Fifteen German kite balloons aud aircraft were destroyed. (Pozieres is four miles north-east of Albert, on the road to Bapaume and Alontauben is five miles due east ot Albert. A little over a milo to the north of Mont,xuben is Longueval. Gommecourt is nine miles duo north or Albert, and Givencliy-cn-Golielle is due west of Souchez.) FRENCH PREMIER’S VISIT. PARIS, Juno 26. M. Briand visited the, British front on Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by Sir Douglas Haig. AN ANZAC RAID. WORK OF THE VICTORIANS. (By 0. E. W. Bean, Official Representative with the Australian Forces.) British Headquarters, France, June 14. “In the small hours of Juno 13 the Australians again raided German wenches. As before, this raid was preceded by a sharp bombardment. ■Our arrangements worked like clockwork down to tho smallest detail. The members of the party were chosen from one of the earlier Victorian battalions, and spent several interesting minutes in the German front trench. They pulled six prisoners out of tho dugouts, and threw bombs in other dugouts. They killed several Germans, aud returned with prisoners at a total cost of two men wounded. W itliin half an hour of the firing of the first gun the party was safely back in its own trenches. The uproar of the guns censed at night, and all was quiet again. “ These raids are small affairs, common along the whole British line. It is always gratifying when arrangements work so perfectly as ou these two occasions. At the same 1 run constantly asked by many Anzac officers and men to state again, what I stated strongly some weeks ago, that tho Anzac troops do not claim or desire the public attention which has been directed to these small feats. Wherever one goes iu the trenches one finds that, both our men and their officers pro very sensitive on this point, and that they rath-r dread the undoubted tendency of people, both in Great Britain and Australia, to exr*-gernte tho feats of the Anzacs. They well know that their mettle has not been tried in Franco as yet by any bard fighting. They arc doing thpir daily work honestly and well, but in a quiet part of the line, which they all realise does not. bear the faintest resemblance to the awkward corners, such as the