GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16309, 10 August 1917, Page 7

GREAT AERIAL ACTIVITY.

GERiAN VIEWS OF LATEST BLOWS

THE EETEEAT PBOM GALICIA.

GEEMANS AID HOSPITAL SHIPS.

NEW FIELDS FOE AMEEICAN TEOOPS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 6.45 p.m., August 9th. LONDON, August 8. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Heavy rain has fallen. The French gained ground north-west of Bixschoote. There is great activity of the enemy's artil- j lery. eastward of Ypres. Despite the weather our aeroplanes' bombed ammunition depots, rail tracks, sidings and trains, forty miles behind the German lines, causing much dam- ! SIR FRANCIS BELL'S SON. ' KILLED IN ACTION. Received 0.5 a.m., Aug. 10th. j LONDON, Aug. 9. W. H. Bell, a captain of King Ed- ' ward's Horse, son of Sir Francis Bell, Wellington, was killed in action. THE FLANDERS BATTLE. A BRUTAL BRITISH BLOW. ACCORDING TO GERMAN PRESS. "The Times." I Received 5.15 p.m., August 9th. LONDON, August 8.

The Gel-man Press describes the Flanders battle as a tremendous and most brutal British blow, in which

science was assisted by liiany devices and weapons.

fp-ortte Qnerl, correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt," while declaring that the Germans can breathe again, irarns the nation that this w.s merely the first stage of the battle. Though the first savage blow was parried, and Germany is able to rejoice, it is also her duty to weep. The British artillery in the last push imposed an un-

canny tension on the German infantry. The enemy used land dreadnoughts, winged infantry, and advanced another stage in wearing down the German trench fighter. The infantry followed and 'orcke over the German ranks like a malicious storm, making pathways. and even broad gaps, upon which the battle reached the utmost of sheer human achievement. The German will to battle is awake in embittered beings at whose door death has been knocking day by day, and night by night, in mar. to man fighting by millions. The guns lost their loud The bnttlo became a matter of strength and nerve. The infantry, realising that they were defending their country's most powerful weapon, the TJ boats, resolved to block the way :.t any sacrifice of life. By even Ins: the cnemv had won some success, had captured trenches, (Tins and prisoners, and had mastered Bixschoote. but he bad not achieved his aim, and Vv Klrpdiic: acainst tho wall over which he had hoped to climb.

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