LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5853, 28 September 1917, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

INTENSE BATTLE RAGING. ATTACK AFTER ATTACK. HUNS SEVERELY BATTERED. (R*oeoiv<Hcl this day at 11.30 a.rn.) London, This Day. Sir Douglas Haig rejiorts: Later accounts show' that the fighting yesterday afternoon and evening was"exceedingly severe. Dio oineniy spared no efforts to re-gain the important! ground captured nnd turtle four separate counter-attacks in great* strength on our mw 'front, from the Tower Hamlet to the St. .Tulieii-Graveiis. lofel road. The struggle was most severe in an men .southward of Polygon Wood, when' tile English, Scottish, Welsh and Vustrnlian troops defeated repeated attempts to break into the positions. All tile enemy attacks were* repulsed and bi.s losses wore extremely heavy. TAlter in the evening the fighting died down, leaving ns' in possession of the ground captured after a severe druggie lasting all day. Die English and Brottisb battalions ejiM'ted ilu' enemy from bis positions and accomplished tile allotted task, so uring the flank of our principal attack. We relieved two companies of Argyle Su (.herlanders who had held out* with great gallantry during file night in a. forward position wherein they were isolated In- the enemy. Later, another counter-attack of great strength developed in this s«*etor, where fierce fighting continues. The Australians further north cleared the remainder of Polygon Wood and eaptimil a trench system eastwards-, whir'll formed their day's objectives*.

j ACTIVITY IN THE BALTIC'. OOURLAND COAST BLOCKADED. RESISTED BY RUSSIANS. (Received, this day at 8.35 a.m.) London This Day. A wireless Russian official report states: The enemy penetrated our trenches south-east of Goiy, but a counter-attack restored the position. German aerial forces and submarines are endeavouring to prevent our vessels approaching the Cburl.und coast. Our torpedoers, submarines and aerial forces are near the Courland coasit and Irbe Cliannel preventing the enemy from entering our waters. NAVAL AIRCRAFT BUSY. ENEMY POSITIONS BOMBED.

(Received, this day at 8.35 a.m.) London This Day. Ine Admiralty reports: Naval aircraft dropped many tons of bomb- on Puesday night on Thonrout, Lichter. veldi and Cortemarck junctions. Tliev scored several direct hits on the lines. All have rettimed.