MUTUAL RAIDING.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14651, 4 March 1918, Page 5

MUTUAL RAIDING.

PORTUGUESE HEAVILY ATTACKED

ENEMY EJECTED FROM THE

TRENCHES,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Router.)

(Received March 3, 5.25 p.m.) London, March 2.

Sir Douglas Haig reports:—

We made successful raids southward of Armentieres and in the neighbourhood of Arleux-en-Gohelle.

Two enemy night raids entered the British trenches and captured a few prisoners. In a third all the raiders were killed or captured.

After a heavy bombardment on a wide front northward of Neuve Chapelle, a strong party attacked and entered the Portuguese front trenches. They were immediately ejected and the position was restored.

The British repulsed raids on the Ypres-Comines Canal, and southward of Houthulst Forest.