HOSTILE RAIDERS REPULSED.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

HOSTILE RAIDERS REPULSED.

ARTILLERY AND AERIAL

ACTIVITY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received Oct. 16, 8 p.m.)

London, Oct. 15

Sir Douglas Haig reports that hostile raiders eastward of Shrewsbury Forest were repulsed.

The hostile artillery is more active in the neighbourhood of Lens1 and Nieuport.

There is much aerial activity. Four German machines were brought down.