DESPERATE BUT FUTILE EFFORTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 7

DESPERATE BUT FUTILE EFFORTS.

COUNTER-ATTACKS . FAIL. LARGE LOSSES THE ONLY RESULT. -JBY CABLE—PSESS / SSOCTATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received May 23, 11.10 a.m.) PARIS, May 22. Le Matin states that the Germans, ■despite most desperate counter-attacks, have been unable to re-take an inch of ground. They threw in two new •divisions in the last twenty-four hours, but did . nothing -beyond losing prisoners and leaving a multitude of corpses before the British positions. The British artillery is truly marvellous, and their barrage crushes any \