CONSTANT PRESSURE BY THE BRITISH

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 5

CONSTANT PRESSURE BY THE BRITISH

ADVANCE ON SEVEN MILES OF FRONT ENEMY'S RESISTANCE QUICKLY OVERCOME Tie High Commissioner reports:— shZ TW f ? °£ er f atlons Md th + l eejwtant pressure we have put on the enemy t?the T?ivor AVnvn, J 6 °J u Pr the , German front trenches from the River Lys COUNTER-ATTACK COMPLETELY REPULSED . 'I he. High Commissioner reports — ~ HAIG REPORTS FURTHER PROGRESS • - BRILLIANT WORK BY BRITISH AEROPLANES. June 17, 11.5 p.m ) CAPTURE/OF FURTHER SECTION OF THE HINDENBURG LINE The , High. Commissioner reports:— Rn'ti-ci. «« • i "u i it- ■ • London, June JS, 10.50 p.m. J! (t d' j 1 T thl v morn,, l? we captured a .further position on a ft ■?! nd< L nb Ki R hne '- ° f Bullecourt, which was still heM by the enemy. The hostile garrison stubbornly resisted, and suffered Wily!" GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE REPELLED BRITISH ATTACKS. (Rep. Juno 17, 5.5 p.m.) ; A wireless German official-message, says: "An "English attack" Warnetoni was oppressed by our batteries. We repelled'an English'attack easto V oU J±r a ? a< V k p dr ,r "I* ft? ? n » Keh « advanced onTr seoond trenches north-westward of Bullecourt. Fresh engagements have developed at BuUecourt and eastward of Mondiy."-A-ue.-N,Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter SUCCESSFUL RAIDS EAST OF LOOS Sir Douglas Haig reports: "We made successful raids easfcwaVof in the neiehixmrhoDd of the Lys Eiver. There has been reciprocal artilC Tc- • SS points betwecn A ™- I ' GERMANS ADMIT BEING PRESSED-BACK .Admiralty, per Wireless Prcss.-A German official report states""'"The English j attacked on the wholo front between Armentieres and Tpres, and pressed back our protecting detachments between Hollebeke and the River Douave in the region south-west of Warneton. The English attacked oast of Monofcy 'and ' broke m at some points, whence they were ejected, except that a. portion of tha trench of the Bois du Sart remains in their hands. A counter-attack drove off the English east of Loos.'—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Keuter. BRITISH GAINS ON THE WESTERN FRONT rRISONERS AND MATERIAL CAPTURED IN MESOPOTAMIA. The TJnder-Socretary to tho War Office (MY. ,T. I. Macpheraon), sneaking in .he House pf Commons, announced that since July, 1916, the British had caphired 43-1 guns on the West front, six hundred square miles of territory lad been regained, and since the beginning of the war to the end of May 76,067 prisonera had been taken. Since July, 1916, we had- captured 10,900 prisoners and 131 guns in Mesopotamia, and we had taken 8729 prisoners and 18 guns in E"ypt — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ■ ' ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON FRENCH . FRONT (Rec. June 17, 11.5 p.m.) , T , . London, June 17. A Jans communique says:— "ATtiller.r is fairly active north and south of Ailette, also in the Champagne sector at Mont Cornillet and Mont Blond Near Courcy we regained a trench element which the enemy had captured in tho morning. All the occupants were killed or captured."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AesnKentor. FRENCH TROOPS WILL STAND AGAINST-MASSED GERMANS. (Rec. June 17, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, June 16. ' M. Painleve (Minister of War), irt the Chamber of Deputies, said it was essential to remove any delusions regarding the offensive commenced on April IC, which some believed was going to be decisive. The French troops will stand against tho massed Germans Teleased by the momentary passiveness of the Rubsian army until the arrival of American forces. The present leaders of tho Allied armies were careful of human lives.—Renter. NAVAL AEROPLANES BOMB AN ENEMY AERODROME (.Rec. June 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 16. '■The Admiralty reports: "Our naval aeroplanes dropped a large number of lmnibs on an aerodrome at St. Denis Westrem. Many direct hits were observed, donse columns of smoke and flames arising. All our machines returned." —Aus.N.Z. Cablo A65n.-Beutor.