FRENCH OPERATIONS
FURTHER ATTACKS DEFEATED (Australian and N.Z. 'Cable Association.) and Reuter.) LONDON, May 17. A French communique says : The Germans in the daytime continued the attacks north and north-west of Laffaux mill as far as the Soissons-Laon railway. They were sanguinarily defeated, despite the strength of the offensives and the violence of the attack's. We brilliantly counter-attacked at some points where the line was momentarily bent, recovering - the whole of the lost ground. : The Gennans los,t heavily in attempting to arfest our.progress*by fresh attacksj which were shattered by curtain and machine gun fire.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 18 May 1917, Page 5
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