communique reports Yesterday night we exploded mine near St. Doi, damaging the enemy's trenches considerably.
To-day we bombarded his trend ches northeast of Armentitres, damaging them considerably.
Small patrols penetrated the enemy's wire near Verlorenhoek, fired from the parapet into a trench which was strongly held by the enemy and retired without suffering any casua!ti To-day the artillery on both sides was active about Loos.
There have been bombardments about Hooge, Saint Jean, Polken and near Pilken, We silenced the enemy's trench mortars with our artillery fire, Another official communique states A German sea-plane appeared over Dover this afternoon. It was engaged by all our anti-aircraft guns and pursued by two British machines.
In the House of Commons to-day the Rt. Hon. H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary of State for War, said that four military aeroplanes and two ses-planes ascended at East Kent, but the raiders had a big start and could not be overtaken. Anti-sireraft guns afloat and ashore fusilladed them.
He announced that during the past four weeks thirteen British and nine, probably eleven, German aeroplanes had been lost in Flanders, We made six raids and the enemy thirteen, we using 138 machines and the enemy twenty. While the British had made 1,997 flights over the German lines they had made only 910 over ours.
Jan. 25. the Admiralty announces that at six o'clock this morning two aeroplanes dropped bombs on Dunkirk.
German sea-plane was forced to
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