FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 26 May 1917, Page 5

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

AERIAL AND ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

LONDON. May 25

A French communique states: There is an aa-tillery duel, intermittently violent, in the regions of Vauclerc mill, the California plateau and Chavreaux. During the night our aeroplanes dropped 2200 kilogrammes of bombs upon the railway station in the region of Rethel. Fires broke out.

Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reiports: Machine gun fire drove off a craid in (the neighboorhood of Armentieres. Aerial activity has increased. On Wednesday eleven German machines were downed; three of ours are missing.