SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT

Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1917, Page 5

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT

AfDVAN'GB NEAR. BULLECOURT. <Rec: Mau 14, 12 30 p.m.) ■■,.■: ' LONDON, May 13. Sir Douglas Haig reports :—There were patrol encounters lajst night north-west of St. Quehtin and north-east of Leverouier. •We advanced our posts at certain points, inflicting 1 casualties. The fighting continues at Bullecourfc. We advanced the line slightly southwards of t!he Scarpe, and improved our position on the eastern slopes of Greenland Hill, noTth of the river. We repulsed counter-attacks eastward o£ Boeux..CemeteW. y- " , PRINZE RTJPPRFCHT HARD , PRESSED-. fAnstr&lian *nd N-Z. Cabl» Association.'. LONDON, May' 12. A correspondent at Headquarters says th'e "Germans are making frantic efforts to regain the -initiative. Prince ißtipprechfc is hard-pressed, with his back Cfclds fly-before NAZOL. Sore throats. are soothed by this oroved and popular remedy.' Get |JAZOL fo-day. is .6d v buys 6Q'doses.

tight against positions which, if lost, would. b_e, fatal to his plans. He is launching'attack after attack at Hindenburg's "bidding against the British, with little it result. i lsie r -Girmans were hurled in heavy .■masses-against St. Cruers, between GavreTia .and^'the-Souchez river. The Briti£bv/"a'Etilje£y an machine gun bar-ragey"-.despite the darknes, tore the attackers:, to:. pieces, and threw back a srtrbng atjack- of Arleux with «onsidefaTfle,'3Qsses. The Germans. ,failed in the evening l , attacks against. pur positions southwards of the Soiiehezdriver.. The Prussians, aided by liquid fire, again struck, but by the light of their own devilish machine Tere'mown down and defeated. The Germans attacked fiercely eastxvard of Ua iCoulotte. The fighting continued.