GERMAN RAIDERS REPULSED.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14619, 25 January 1918, Page 5

GERMAN RAIDERS REPULSED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Router.)

(Received Jan. 24, 11.30 p.m.) London, Jan. 24. Sir Douglas Haig reports.— We dispersed a small party wh-ch was making an effort to approach oppositions west of Villers Guislain. Another party which succeeded in entering our trenches • north-west of La Bassee was ejected, leaving prisoners in our hands. The enemy also raided our sap west ■of La Bassee. There is hostile artillery activity be- j tween St. Quentin and the Sc-arpe, and in the neighbourhoods of Messines and Zonnebeke.