ON THE MEUSE.
PORTION OF THENCH LOST. LONDON. May 30. The French official communique says: " West of tlie Mouse, all day yesterday, the cnomy infconsolv bombarcletl. With sKclta of Ifcirgc calibro. oar first
and second lines from Avocourt Wood to Cumiores. " During tJio afternoon the Germans violently abtaoked our positions on Jli.l 304. They were repulsed the iii'sb time with appreciable losses. J'liu (enemy renewed the effort later, and i oNjwu'nced a sanguinary check. Enemy .gatherings' reported west of Hill 3J-t were dispersed by tho fire of our batteries. '■ " Between Mort Homme and Cumieres a strong attack debouching from Crows' Wood was broken by our curtain of fire, except at one point, where the enemy gained a footing on a front 300 metres in one of • our advanced trenches north-west of' Cumiercs."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8463, 31 May 1916, Page 5
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