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2七廿月一十年七十壹百九千叠英

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HO_SKONG. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.

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THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S

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(Reuter's Service to the Chino Mazel

THE BRITISH BATTLE FRONT.

THE ENEMY'S FAILURE.

LONDON, Nov. 20.

Field Marsha! Sir Douglas Haig reports: -

pretty good everywhere on the battle field.,

Great activity is reported behind

the German front.

GERMAN REPORT.

Lannes, Nov 26.

A German official messige states: Obstinate enemy attacks at Intby

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The enemy has not repented his failed. attacks on the Bourlon position s'nce. We repulsed minor advances yesterday's failure, and the situation, against Bourlon and cleared out the therefore, is unchanged.

There bus been considerable mutual artillery activity to the north- east of Xpres and on the Passchen Jaele sector...

There was no infantry" action." Later in the evening we again advanced and completely restored the situation, inflicting heavy casualties. The Germaga, as the price of their very temporary" success.

over

our

English nests, which remained be hind our lines, near Bourlon, taking. 300 prisoners.

"We progressed on the south. western edge of Bourton Wood and to the "westward of Fontaine.

We repulsed attacks to the north

to the east of. of Banteaux and Gricourt.

A French uttack, on a four-kilo-

THE KING'S CONGRATULATIONS.

troops, are reported to be in posses-metre Front, between Samognons

and Peaumont, broke down sion of the streets of Bourlon Vill- age, but the possession of this place is relatively of minor importance in view of our occupation of the Wood which is dominating this spot and the

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Losbox, Nov. 26. The King has telegraphed to Sir Douglas Huig:

NEW FRENCH POSÍTION ORGANISED.

Our capture of 100 gera are all 1 congratulate you, General legitimate artillery weapons, and not Byng and his troops upon the suc cessful operations in the neighbour merely a collection largely inade up hood of Cambrai. The complete of trench mortars which the Ger- surprise effected by such novel mahs count in their Pal captures. methodes of warfare bas been received "A great feature of the fighting bas|with the utmost satisfaction through- been the daring achievements of the out the Empira, bolding out great airmen. Their reconnoitring work opes for the future. It is graifs- ing that the Tanks, a purely Brilab was mostly effected within pistol mvention, played an important. elot of the enemy. Amid showers of part." bullets a flotilli of aeroplanes rescued some Tanks, which were held at bay on the north-east corner of the Wood, L by drenching the assailants with Lewis gut fire. Some Binnen drop-

A French communiqué, states: ped a couple of 25 pound bombs There has been great artillery. right in the middle of a marching cativity on the right of the Meuse. column of Germans and nothing was in the region to the north of Hat left except the craters, surrounded 844, where we organised the con by heaps of corpses. Other exploits quered position. were equally successful and some of the aviators returned with their machines and clothea riddled with bullets.

SOME ASPECTS OF THE BATTLEFRONT.

Losos, Nov. 28.

THE ITALIAN FRONT

GERMANS BRINGING UP HEAVY (ARTILLERYS

ROME, Nov. 25.

A mesage dealing with the last LONDON, Nov. 20.

fortnight's hard fighting on the Piave Reuter's Correspondent at Headline states that half-a-dozen enemy quarters, telegraphing to-day, states attacks, on a ten mile Front on thut since the last heavy German the Monte Federa-Onterertica-San counter-attack last evening, which blarido line, were repulsed. pressed us back from the north- The enemy was obliged to with

draw three Divisions because they eastern portion of Boution village, there has been no fnfuntry uctivity slopes are strewn with the corpsee were literally nearly destroyed. The

of the Prussian Guards and Austrian Jaegers

on the Cambrai battler area.

The tactical situation is not ap- preciably affected by this small. etiemy recovery, since we still pusse the high ground dominating the German positiona over a wide stretch of the Front.

The prisoners acknowledge that the Italian resistance is beyond belief

und say they only hope to break it with the

senasiatanas of heavy artil lery, the arrival of which fa daily expected.

ATTACKS BY ENEMY MASSES DEFINITELY REPULSED..

One effect of our mommand of the high ground, is that it has been reported by patrols that they found that certain eremy trench elementa Dad been abandoned during the night. manifestly owing to the advisability of readjusting their line in order to minimise the destructive results of our heavy fire which we are able to concentrate under direct observation Pioze

LOTDON, Nov 25,

An Itplan official megasgestātes 2 Enemy masses, yesterday, aged, attacked between the Brenta and the

Occasion burats of fierce German On the left wing, an attack on shelling, during the night, wereOur counter-attacke replied to Mount Pertica was promptly crushed. probably designed to enter there every freaks enemy attempt.

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There is nothing in these move ments to indicate sny design on the part of the enemy to refrcat; they are merely the matutul fruits ofcour success in the Bullecourt areas

The weather is now bitterly cold with a shrill north wind and cloud lear sky. 4. The visibility

assailante at Tasson

The enemy pressure was stronzert at the centre but was definitel repulsed

We took 200 prisoners We repulsed pn.enery

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