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Show BRITISH CARRY OUT SUCCESSFUL AERIAL RAIDS LONDON. Dec. 11, 11:55 p. m. The official of-ficial statement from British headquarters in France tonight reads: Last night we carried out successful success-ful raids east of Neuville St. Vaaste and southeast of Armentierres, destroy de-stroy in;; machine gun emplacements and taking prisoners. An attempted enemy raid east of La Bouielllerie failed. Hostile working work-ing parties at Fauquisart and Wlelnoe were dispersed by our fire. During the last twenty-four hours the artillery and trench mortars on both sides have been active in the I.OOS, Arras and Ypres-Arras and the sector north of the Ancre. South of that river there lias been some hostile shelling of the Mouquet farm and the extreme right of our front. |