ATTACKS AND COUNTERATTACKS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 7

ATTACKS AND COUNTERATTACKS

METZERAL, IN ALSACE, TAKEN The High. Commissioner reports: — . LONDON, 22nd June, 3.35 a.m. In the sector north of Arras French air squadrons bombarded the enemy's aviation parks, set fire to four hangars, and struck two machines and a captive balloor>. On the western borders of the Argonne the Germans on Sunday night delivered a violent local attack prepared by an intense bombardment with asphyxiating projectiles. The French advanced line was bent at certain points, two companies being buried in the destroyed trenches. By an immediate counter-attack almost the whole of the former French position was reconquered. At Calonne the French repulsed German counter-attacks and enlarged their earlier gains. In Lorraine the reconnaissance parties, keeping in contact with the enemy, reached the works west of Gondrexon and found them unoccupied. The Germans '"n. retiring stopped at tho trenches south of Leintrey. Progress continued in Alsace, the French having captured the cemetery of Metzeral, also gained possession of the railway station and then carried the village by assault. Following a hot combat, the line was pushed five hundred metres beyond the I outskirts. The actions yielded numerous prisoners. LONDON, 22nd June, 5.20 p.m. A German counter-attack last evening east of Gunnevieres Farm was checked by infantry and artillery; the enemy used asphyxiating bombs. In Lorraine, a fresh attack by the French extended their positions 300 yards northward of the crest east of Reillon. They occupied the hills south of Remabois, easily repulsing a counter-attack from Leintrey, another south-east of Parroy, taking prisoners. In the Valley of the Fecht, our gains were maintained; and they continue to progress.