LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5850, 25 September 1917, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

SENSATIONALLY DEFEATED. POWERFUL GERMAN ATTACKS. BRITISH GAINS IMPORTANT. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) Paris, This Day. Marcel Hutioi says the positions that the British have captured are so important that the enemy is incessantly attacking, but the attempts made with powerful contingents have been sensationally defeated. The positions occupied by the British are such that they can if need lie, wait till the coming spring and pass the winter without having their feet in water, which will be the lot of the Germans in the positions to which they have retreated. It is significant that eighteen-year old Germans are unable to stand their ground whilst thie officers, instead of being with their men. have kept to the rear. Thi- accounts for the few officers taken prisoner. Private advices from Havre state that Antwerp is crowded with troops bi I letted on the inhabitants. RAIDERS DRIVEN OUT. ARTILLERY ACTIVE. (Received this 'day at 8.50 a.m.) London, Tbi-s Day. Sir Douglas Haig report-: We drove out the raiders from our trenches near Laba&sevalle. The enemy’s artillery is active on .both banks of the Scarpa, southward of Lens and north-eastward of Ypres. RUSSIANS TAKE POSITIONS. ENEMY LOSSES SEVERE. (Received this dav at 8.50 a.m.) London, This Day. A wireless Russian official report states : We occupied enemy positions, after a tierce struggle, southward of the Pskov high roall. Tlie enemy losses were severe. ITALIAN ACTIVITY. SMASH A COUNTER-ATTACK. (Received this day at 8.-30 a.m.) London This Day. An Italian official message states : We heavily repulsed tlie enemy’s counter-attack in the MarmoJadn region. Our aeroplanes dropped four tons of lx>mb- on the Gra-ovo railway station.