WESTERN ATTACK.
OFFICIAL REPORTS, f Received Dec. 13, s:3O p.m. London; Dec. 13. General Sir Douglas Haig reports:— Successful mining operation's were carried out southward of Ypres. Th : e enemy is artillerying and trench-mortaring opposite Festubert and Neuve Ohappelle. Thf enemy ammunition dump at Vimy was fired. We bombarded, retaliatory, the enemy's supports on the line norjh-. ward of the Ancre. Received Dec. 13, 8.4' 1 ) p.m. Paris, Dec. 13. Official.—South of the Somme there was brisk reciprocal artillerying at the Blaehes and La Masionette sectors. FUTILE GERMAN ATTACKS. London, Dec. 1/. A French communique states: A German .attack on the Bois-de-Loges, north of Lassigny, was broken, up by our bar-' rage. Enemy detachments which got a looting in our advanced trenches wore driven out with grenades and our line entirely. re-established. PROTEST AGAINSI DEPORTATIONS. Amsterdam, Dec. 12. Dutch Socialists passed resolutions . unanimously. condemning the deporta. tiqns, and telegraphed urging German Socialists to ntake a protest on Tuesday in the Reichstag.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1916, Page 5
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