EXTREMELY VIOLENT ACTIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

EXTREMELY VIOLENT ACTIONS

FRENCH RETAIN CAPTURED POSITIONS. AND GAIN FURTHER GROUND. AIRMEN VERY ACTIVE. VARIOUS GERMAN POSITIONS ATTACKED. (Received May 27, 10.30 a.m.)

PARIS, May 26

A communique states: Recent checks have driven the Germans to extremely violent action. On the 25th and 26th they first counter-attacked works captured by the French north-west of Angres, hut the French, despite a" bombardment of exceptional intensity, retained the whole of the new positions, and gained ground on the crests north-east of Notre Dame do Lorette. French aviators on the 25th were active along the whole fron£", and dropped 203 projectiles, 'of which 82 were bombs weighing ten kilos and 14 sheells weighing 43 kilos. They fired a shed and aeroplane at the aviation depot at Hewilly, and hit petrol depots in the reserve park for aircraft at Grand Priel. Four shells were dropped at Douai, and fired the goods station.