WESTERN FRONT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17285, 28 September 1916, Page 7

WESTERN FRONT.

AEROPLANE LOSSES. 250 AEROPLANES IN TWELVE WEEKS. Reuter’s Telegrams. PARIS. September 26. From, the first of July to tlie twentyfifth of September, 250 enemy aeroplanes were' destroyed or brought down. IN BELGIUM. GERMANS EXPELLING WOMEN. The Times " Service. AMSTERDAM, September 26. A correspondent of the “Telegraaf ” learns that Belgian women who hitherto have been refused permission to leave are now being expelled to Holland. THE YOUNG MEN. FACTORY AND FIRING LINE. Reuter’* Telegram*. PARIS, September 26. The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies missed a resolution demanding that young men working m factories who are without families should be replaced by fathers of big families who are now in the firing line. ' * ,

ROUND VERDUN. ( 1 ENEMY EFFORTS REPULSED. GREAT ACTIVITY OF AIRMEN. Au#tralian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, September 26. ,A French communique stntos:— The enemy made a violent attack on the Thianmdnt Work and at Fleury, but failed with serious losses. Yesterday our aviators fought fortyseven combats. Onr squadrons bombed many enemy railways and factories.