The skipper of. the collier Redhall, Captain J. Dunbar, reported that a German" plane hat dropped dowa from the clouds und attacked his shi but had been driven off by machine sins mounted on the collive.
A member of the crow of the Avonde suid the trawler's skipper hod. red several rounds at the attackin: t German planes until his machine-gun Lively Day on West Front Sector Paris, Mar. 18.
A sector of the Western Front west the Vosues hax been very animated uring the past 24 hours.
One of the events there was an encounter in no-man's-land between French "free group" (a small unit Of men who volunteer for dangerous work) anda German detachment, mposedl of about 200 men. There was a short but lively enjeuement, in which the Germans suffered losses tind the French had two missing.
Late yesterday the Germans attempted" iniitration tactics im= mediately to the east of the Mossel but wore repulsed without difficulty by" combined infantry and artillery: ike.
It Is surmised there is some vague nection between present diplomatic
Jor propaganda on the Rhine fro the sudden recrudescence where Germany have been busy put ting up streamers with slogans ud-Jdressed to French troops. The [Prench replied with bursts of machine-yun fire at the banners and the men trying to ervet "An enemy attempt to creep theo to the east of the Moselle failed before our iafantey ard artillery fire." states the atest. French communique on military operations on the. Western Front. Marked ty of recon haisinee parties west of the Vosizes was previously announced—Reuter.
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