A BUSY NIGHT,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 5

A BUSY NIGHT,

NUMEROUS GERMAN ATTACKS

REPULSED

WITH HEAVY LOSS TO ENEMY

* BRITISH LOSE NO GROUND

(Received May 26, 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, May 25

A French Embassy communique states: The night was rather disturbed between the sea and Arras. The Germans, after a bombardment, attempted to attack between Langemark and Ypres. Two attacks northward of Abiain were repulsed, and four northward of Neuville were stopped short by cur artillery.

The enemy during these .various attempts were completely checked and suffered severe losses.

Reuters correspondent at the British headquarters reports that the British guns on the Festubert front, besides knocking out a German battery, drove numbers of the enemy out of houses. These were allowed to proceed a short-distance and then shelled with shrapnel, suffering considerable losses.

The British further progressed in the same vicinity, and captured a number of strongholds.

German infantry attacks at Festuberfc were repulsed, the concentrated fire of British guns, machine guns and rifles inflicting severe casualties.

Desipte the enemy bombarding Ypres and all its surroundings with asphyxiating shells, and a gas attack on the trenches around the salient, the British have not lost ground.