FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 May 1918, Page 5

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

CONSIDERABLE ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.

THE AMERICAN FORCES

TO BE ACTIVELY ENGAGED

THE GERMAN NAVY

PARTICIPATION IN NEXT PHASE

PREDICTED

LONDON. May 13

A French communique states that there is nothing to report, except somewhat lively reciprocal bombardment, notably on both banks of the Avre.

Sir Douglas Haig reports that hostile artillery has developed considerable activity north of Serre, and is also active on the southern portion of the British front and th© sector north of Kemmel. —Aus.-N.Z. C.A. and Reuter.

LONDON, May 13 (4.40 p.m.) A French communioue reports: There has been mutual artillery activity at some points north and south of the Avre. Detachments penetrated the German lines north of Momeny.—Aus.N.Z. C.A. and Reuter. i WASHINGTON, May 13. Mr Baker states' that the American forces in France would be actively engaged in battle now and regularly in the future.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PARIS, May 13. Marcel Hutin, writing in L'Echo de Paris, states that the German navy will participate in the next phase, of the western battle. The German people have been so impressed with the energetic blows delivered upon Zeebrugge and Ostend that the Reichstag Committee took Admiral yon Capelle to task for the inaction of tne navy.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.