IN THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1916, Page 5

IN THE WEST.

AT YPRES. & GERMAN PREPARATIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' London, April 26. "/< fie Times' correspondent at headquarters says that the Germans have recently been increasingly active in the Ypres region. Some think it is the beginning of a real attack on the salient. /Vie are quite ready and shall welcome it. The more general opinion is that they are only liming at keeping us occupied 10 as to prevent preparation for the /great offensive; GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL. IoODWORK BY FRENCH AIRMEN. April 7, 11.38 ip.m. 'v * iParis, April 27. v. !A tommunlque says: The Germans atto debouch against our position i llorth of Senones, in Lorraine, but. were •Stopped by a curtain of fire. The German losses in the 'attack on La Chapelofcte salient are estimated at iiliont one thousand. aeroplanes on the night of April r ?r; ,i i boJnbed the parks and bivouacs . i t' c envfrons of Etains and Damthe railway stations at Brieullea, l ''in, Pierrepont, Meizeres, and I 'tlii' 1 . and the steel works at Joef and '■"•niirt. They also bombed in the r<i oE Roye the ammunition depot sr mi »f Ville Cardonnel, where there i heavy explosion, ierman airship bombed the region : tuples, and slightly wounded two tSritisU soldiers. • OFFICIAL KEPORT. Hetfeived April 27, 11.25 p.m. London, April 27. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: We brought down an enemy aeroplane in our lines the occupants being killed, TKf! enemy sprung a mine south-east oi Sanchez and obtained a footing in the trenches, but a counter-attack drove ' tbein out. *A GERMAN REPORT.

Received April 27, 9.25 p.m. , Amsterdam, April 26. . A Gentian communique says: English attacks south of La Bassee were repulfted, and in severe hand-to-hani lighting we tpok two lines of trenches in front of I?tJl 542 in the Vosges, |