THE PRINCIPAL BATTLEFRONT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1014, 6 November 1917, Page 5

THE PRINCIPAL BATTLEFRONT.

IN FLANDERS AND FRANCE. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received November 6, 8.55 a.m. WASH! NOTON, Nov. 5. Mr Baker emphasised the fact that the •principal hattlefront. remains in Flanders and France. There, he said, our forces are lighting. . The evacuation of the Worder Peninsula is taken to mean that the Germans do not contemplate a further advance towards Petrograd at present. GERMANS RAID AMERICAN TRENCHES. A PRISONER’S ADMISSION. Received November 5, 12.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. The Gormans on tho 3rd raided tho American trenches. Three Americans were killed, five wounded and twelve captured. One wounded German was taken prisoner. He states the Germans first barraged the trenches, which formed a salient, cutting oft' a group of Americans, and the raid followed. . . It is believed the Germans repeated the ■tactics which they executed against the Australians and the Canadians, when they first occupied the front lines. NAVAL AIR RAIDS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, LONDON, Nov. 4. The Admiralty reports: Our air service carried- out numerous patrols to-day, bringing down an enemy machine in the sea and damaging another and probably destroying a third. , . , Wo raided Engel aerodrome and bombed hangars and sheds. Two of the enemy s attacking machines wore driven down. All of ours returned.