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Show BRITISH SUCCEED IN OPERATIONS ON WESTERN FRONT LONDON, Jan. 10, 10:45 p. m. Tonight's To-night's official report from British headquarters head-quarters in France reads: The last twenty-four hours have been marked by a series of well-executed enterprises in various portions of our line. A 'hichiy successful minor operation was carried out last niht east of Beaumont-Hamel. We seized a consolidated section of an enemy trench and took prisoner three officers and 140' men. We carried out a successful raid this afternoon east of Loos and secured se-cured a number of prisoners. x Yesterday evening we entered the enemv's trenches opposite Armen-tleres" Armen-tleres" and killed many of the en-emv, en-emv, destroved a hostile machine gun and did other damage to the enemy's defenses. Artillery activity continued in the neighborhood of Lesboeufs and .in both sides .of the Ancre valley. We bombarded the enemy's trenches opposite op-posite Lesars and his battery positions posi-tions in the neighborhood of Gomme-court. Gomme-court. Destructive bombardments of the enemy's lines were also carried out north of La Bassee canal, west of Ploecsteert and in the1 neighborhood of Ypres. |