WESTERN CAMPAIGN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 4 January 1916, Page 5

WESTERN CAMPAIGN

BOHBiftßMtgr fN THE DUNES ENEMY'S WORKS DAMAGED. PARIS, .Tan. 3. A communique states that our artillery. -heavily damaged the enemy's works in the region of the dunes in Belgium, and. blew up two ammunition, depots. Owing 1 to a, violent enemy bombardment in the- Hartmanns Weilerkopf region our troops on a, 200-metre front fell back to the western edge of 'the ravine southward of Re pf el sen. FURTHER DETAILS. (Rec. Jan. 4, 8.50 a.m.) {Official.) PARIS, Jan. 3. The bombardment by field artillery in the Dunes region started on Ist January. We blew up two ammunition depots in the Argonne. Batteries dispersed the Germans on the road from Avoncourt- to Malancourt. At Hartmanns Weilerkopf, following a violent bombardment, we re: tired along a front of 200 metres south of Rehfelsen. The enemy did not a tier-pt an infantry aEfe-- K . • V :, t 'iMfiji

THE BRITISH FRONT SIR DOUGLAS lIAJCTS REPOI'T. LONDON, Jan. 3. Sir TVuiglas Haig re-jiorts thai the enemy .-[muiii: a mine on Sunday in i'rc-riv of our trenches eastward of Giv-f-nc'ny. but dkl not- attempt to occupy the crater. Our ai cillery boinbarde-d the enemy trenches norhward of "Fromelks and eastward of Ypres. The German-, vigorously replied, without- causing serious damage. Mr Philip Gibb-s says half a pale, with a drenching 1 rain, ushered in the New Year on the British front, but the howling wind was outdone by the ioar of ;h great British guns, which "strafed" the Germans. The air was swept by the incessant rush of .shell?!, to "which the enemy made a feeble reply. GERMAN MESSAGE. (Rec. Jan. 4. 8.50 a.m.) I BERLIN". Jan. 3. A German official message states that the troops attacked between La Bassee. and Bethune on a- wide front. The occupants of one of the enemy trenches were buried T>y the explosion of a mine. Someyvvere shot and others fled. GERMAN" MESSAGE. (Rec. Jan. 4. 11.25 a.m. ) BERLIN. Jan. 3A German official massage states that French artillery shelled Lutterbaeh, killing-a girl and wounding a woman and child.