OFFICIAL WAR MESSAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14157, 20 April 1916, Page 4

OFFICIAL WAR MESSAGES.

BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE

SUCCESSFUL LOCAL ATTACKS

The Prime Minister has rece.iveA the follovir.g by cable frorr tho H^rh (.'oiiitnissiouer:—

London, 'April IS), 1.55 a.m. Tv.i(-o in ' the last thirty hours our tn.ops penetrated at different points into the German trenches, once in daylight yesterday, and one« during the night On each hecaoion tho enterprise met with complete success, a machinegun emplacement bring destroyed and several dugouts bomb."d. Our casualties were one wounded and one missing.

Two German officers and twenty, men were killed during the night.

Two snv.ll German cilrorts against our position at St. Eloi, preceded by a heavy bombardment, were successfully repulsed. To-day there are isolated artillery duels at various points.