FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
PROGRESS CONTINUED.
NEW POSITIONS GAINED
COUNTER-ATTACKS BEATEN OFF
GERMAN AMMUNITION DEPOT
BLOWN UP
PARIS, May 30. Official.—Te carried the whole village of Abluin, after very hot fighting, annihilating or putting to flight three German companies.
Fighting continues at Neuvi!le. We captured a fresh group of houses in the western outskirts.
We brought down an aeroplane near Thiaucourt.
Ei.glish aviators blew up an ammunition depot at Poelcapelle and a hundred Gernans were killed and 6eventy-fi,ve woinded. -
Official.—The British progressed near La Bassee. -The enemy's counter-at-tacks near Angres were continued with increasing violence, but they failed. They seven times attacked within 24 hours, but our artillery and infantry prevented any progress by the assail ants. The integrity of the position was maintained, despite a continuous bombardment of extreme intensity. We progressed a hundred metres northward of Ecuri and took 150 prisoners in the Le Pretre forest. We also progressed several hundred metres at 'Schnopfourieth heights in Alsace.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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158FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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