FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 5

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

FRENCH POSITIONS RECAPTURED

BY ENEMY

BRITISH MAKE FURTHER PRO-

GRESS

A SUCCESSFUL AIR, RAID.

RAILWAY BRIDGE BADLY

DAMAGED

THE ADVANCE ON ANGRES

A DIFFICULT POSITION TO TAKE

PARIS, May 27

Official.—The by desperate -efforts, recaptured positions an Angres, lighting with extreme violence through•out the day.

An. aeroplane' flying towards Paris threw bombs on Meaux. In the meanwhile the air squadron at the front were 1 warned, and awaited the return of the -enemy aeroplane and brought it down ...■at Soissons. Both German aviators were killed.

Our aeroplanes dropped fifty 90-milli-suetre shells on the Douai aerodrome, iiitting the hangars and aeroplanes.

(Dotiai is in France, 17 miles south of Lillet

LONDON, May 27. Sir John French reports the army continue to advance east of Festubert. -A territorial division last night captured a group of German trenches. Since the 16th the First Army has pierced the Germany line on a front of over three miles, taking prisoners eight officers and 767 men, and cajgturing ten machine guns.

ROTTERDAM, May 27

The aeroplane raid on the St. Pierre railway station at Ghent made a great '_ole in the railway bridge over the Scheldt, which carries practically all the traffic from Bruges to Ostend, and also 'the Berlin and Vienna expresses. .

PARIS, May 27

Angres is a big mining village, where the German's have hidden among the liouses great guns, with which they hin--dered the French attacks on the Lorette slopes. The French' are approaching Angres from the west-north-west, ■through German fieldworks construct--•cd among mines and slag heaps.