SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS.
CONTINUED ARTILLERY DUEL
VIOLENT FIRE ON THE FRENCH
FRONT,
COUP DE MAIN IN THE BOIS LE
PRETRE.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
and Reuter.)
(Received Dec. 12, 9.20 p.m.)
London, Dec. 12. Sir Douglas Haig reports successful raids eastward of Keuville St. Vaast and south-eastward of Armentieres, destroying machine gun- emplacements and taking prisoners.
An attempted enemy raid eastward of La Hautilleue failed. Hostile working parties at .Fanquissart and Wieltje were, dispersed.
There is reciprocal artillery and trench mortar fire at Loos, Arras, Ypres and north of the Ancre.
A Paris communique reports violent artillery fire at Ville an Bois, northwest of Rheims, and in the Douau,mont sector.
A coup de main was successfully carried out against enemy trenches in the Bois le Pretre, west of Pont-a-Moilsson.
SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS.
Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14284, 13 December 1916, Page 5
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