SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAID ON THE CAMBRAI SECTOR,

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16800, 16 March 1918, Page 7

SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAID ON THE CAMBRAI SECTOR,

:; 1;; ARTILLERY ACTIVITY DISPLAYED AT SEVERAL POINTS |;V BELGIANS GAIN FOOTING IN ENEMY TRENCHES. <:}i Australian and N.Z. and Heuter. LONDON, Mar. M. ;f, Sir Douglas Haig reports: We raided the enemy's trenches south|fc cast of Epehy, 12 miles north-west of St. Quentin, and successfully fo- repulsed a raid north of the Ypres-Staden railway. Reciprocal artilEC lery fighting is in progress south-west of Cambrai, and there is increased I' • hostile artillery firing in the Neuve Chapelle and Fauquissant sectors. If r.. A Bolgian communique states: After a violent bombardment our If" troops gained a footing in the German trenches south-east of Lombartisj zyde, and further advanced after violent hand-to-hand fighting. They |V stopped a counter-attack. Artillery actions were in progress along the m' whole front yesterday and to-day. They were especially violent in the I ■ Nieuport and Dixmudc regions. !., A French communique states that marked artillery activity is in Wj- progress in the Argonne and on the right bank of the.Meuse. WJfc Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM. Mar. 14. §§£'; The Kaiser, the Crown Prince, and Generals von Hindonburg, and Pp von Ludendorff are going to Brussels at the end of the week. Thence WM' they will visit the Flanders front in connection with the impending mjk offensive, which will probably be most violent at Ypres, Germany's H ~ ' ; next objective being Dunkirk.