HURRICANE GUNFIRE
BEFORE BOTH ATTACKS. NORTHERN ASSAULT LOCAL. ALLIES FIGHT BRILLIANTLY. (Received 2.20 p.m.) LONDON. May 27. Correspondents report that both attacks were preceded by hurricane bombardments. The southern was extensive, but the northern, which was launched at 4.:i0 a.m.. was apparently localised.— (United Service.) General Sixte yon Arnim's infantry (stationed to the south-west of Ypres) advanced at dawn to-.lay under cover of a ground haze, following furious artillery fire, their objective being the Scherpenberg Hill, a mile and a-ha.'f north-west of Kemmel. The object of this attack is to neutralise the French success at Locre, a mile to the southwest. The United Press Association correspondent, writing at 4.30 o'clock in the evening, says that the Germans made some progress in the direction of Scherpenberjr. The Allies were fighting brilliantly, but it was too early yet to know the result.—(A. and N\Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 126, 28 May 1918, Page 2
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