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Show BRITISH CARRY OUT SUCCESSFUL RAID AT NIGHT LONDON, May 29. The German artillery artil-lery is active north of Albert and in the Flanders salient, east of Robecq. the war office announces. The enemy's fire increased in-creased locally east of Arras and south of Lens. The statement follows: We carried out a successful raid "last night southeast of Arras and captured prisoners and a machine gun. A raid attempted by the enemy at Givenchy-ie-La Bassee was re pulsed. A hostile attack upon the of our posts south of the Ypres-Comines Ypres-Comines canal also was repulsed after sharp fighting. The hostile artillery has been active ac-tive north of Albert in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Ayette, east of Robecq and northwest of Merville, and has shown somewhat increased activity locally east xf Arras and south of Lens. |