UNSUCCESSFUL GERMAN ATTACKS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14743, 23 October 1915, Page 5

UNSUCCESSFUL GERMAN ATTACKS.

FRENCH ARTILLERY DO HOOD WORK. The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, October 22 (4.40 p.m.). The enemy unsuccessfully attempted an attack against salients east and south-west of Port Givenchy. In the Valley of Souchez the enemy's attempted progress was easily repulsed. In the Champagne a vdry violent bombardment at three points was everywhere visibly effective. A curtain of repression fire was made on the German trenches and. batteries. In the Argonne a mine explosion destroyed a German post. A group of Allies’ aeroplanes bombed the German aviation park,at Ounel, between the Argonne and the Meuse. VIOLENT GERMAN BOMBARDMENTS. EFFECTIVE FRENCH REPLY. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received October 23, 10.30 a.m. PARIS, October 22. , . A communique states that the German bombardment continues very violently westward o i Tahure and eastward of Butte, Mesnil, and in the Vllle sur Tourbe district. We everywhere repulsed the enemy by repressive Are, which was clearly very effective against the batteries and trenches. The explosion of a French mine in the Argonne destroyed an enemy post.