WESTERN FRONT
FIGHTING ON THE MEUSE
STRONG GERMAN ATTACK AT
MORT HOMME.
(Received May 6, 9.30 a.m.)
PARIS, sth May.
A communique states: After a violent bombardment westward, of the Meuse, the Germans made a strong attack on a position northward of Hill 304. The attack was repulsed as a whole, but the enemy gained a footing at some points in the advanced trench.
The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, sth May, 4.45 a.m. ' At Mort Homme a small German attack on the trenches we recently conquered was stopped by our curtain of fire. LONDON, sth May, 2.55 p.m. South of the Somme a coup-de-main attempted by the enemy on our trenches in the region of Gappy (two miles southeast of Bray) was completely checked. East of the Meuse, and in the Woevre, thete has been intermittent artillery fire.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 5
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