Evening star., 1917-10-19
FRENCH PENETRATE
GERMAN DEFENSES
Intensive Raiding Operations
Conducted by Gen. Petain's
Men on the Aisne.
ENEMY FAILS AT VER0UN

ENEMI fAlIS Al VEhUUW
On ths western fighting front French
have been engaged In some intensive
operations In the Aisns region, CEN
tsring In the district south and south
west OF Iaon. Extensive raids have
been carried ou. after the guns had
prepared the way and several score of
prisoners have been brought in by the
French infantrymen. who likewise in
ficted notable damage while they We're
within the German lines
The activity Of the German infantry
along the French front was apparently
confined last night to the Verdun re
s1on- Here another local attack was
made on the French lines east of the
Aeuse. which tho French repulsed,
Penetrate German Defenses.
~ the Associated Press.
PARIS. October 1s.-The official an
nouncement of today follows:
AFTER particularly effective artillery
preparation q series of detail opera
tons enabled US to penetrate the Ger
man defenses In the region of Brave
ea-Laonnois and Laffaux mill. We de-
storyed German defenses and brought
back 100 prisoners belonging to four
different divisions. An enemy attempt
against our small posts in the ChevreuX
salient was repulsed.
"Between the Miette and the Aisne
We carried out an attack in the course
of which we inflicted serious losses on
the enemy and captured materials. In
the Champagne one of our detachments
penetrated the German trenches north
of The Casque. pursued the retreating
enemy, and, after a spirited combat, re-
turned to its own lines.
"on the right bank of the Meuse we
yepulsed a German attack north of
Chatilion-
Twenty bombs were dropped by avi-
ators last night in the region of Dun
kirk No victims are reported. Octo
Der 16 two German airplanes were
brought down by Section SO of the Au-
tomobile Artillery.
German Airdrome Bombed.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. October 1s.-"Many bombs
were dropped yesterday. with satisfac-
tory result. on the Varssenaere air
drome (Flanders) by naval aircraft"
says an official announcement given out
here today. "AlT our machines return-
ed safely.
An official statement given out last
night says:
"Aviation-On Wednesday the fine
weather produced great aerial activity.
The visibility was excellent and ena-
bled our machines to do a great deal of
successful artillery work and photog-
raphy. Ninety-eight bombs were drop
ped by our airplanes during the day on
enemy billets and hutments.
The strong west winds and clear at
har 4aa1 for shaa
tillery, reconnaissance and fighting ma
chimes. which were active and very ag-
gressive in the forenoon. Several flights +,
were made at high attitudes over our
lines. with the result that of the enemy
machines brought down by our air
planes three fell in our territory.
In all eleven German machines were
brought down by us, including one shot
others were driven down out of control.
Three of our machines are missing"
Hostile Raiders Repulsed.
We repulsed a hostile raiding party
days official statement we had no
casualties.
'On the battle front the enerny's ar
tillery activity has been directed chiefly |
against positions in the neighborhood
OF the Menin road and against Zonne-
beke."
Artillery Fire Heavy.
BERLIN. October 10, via London
Notably violent artillery fire was kent
up yesterday on the Flanders front at
doutholst wood. near Passchendaele
and between Gheluvelt and Zandvoorde,