TRIUMPH OF BRITISH ARTILLERY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 8

TRIUMPH OF BRITISH ARTILLERY

FRENCH EXPERTS' ELATED

SIGNS OF COMING ENEMY RETREAT.

(Reuter Message.) (Received May 23, 10.40 a.m.)

PARIS, May 22. French experts ar.e elated at the triumph of the British artillery, which in | less" than a month cracked a barrier it' took t*he Germans a year to build, and upon which hinges all the enemy's fu- ; fture manoeuvres. | Already, they consider, there are signs of the Germans preparing to retreat to a new system which is the ' only alternative to a decisive! defeat, j namely a.^gyjstem of switteh trenches . zigzagging to a-allying points. j