GERMANS PUT TO FLIGHT
. j i f BENCH OAKBY vILUGE. AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN. (Received May 31. 1.5 a.m.) ' Paris', May , 30. ; It is officially reported that the French carried the whole village of Ablain after very hot fighting, annihilating or putting to ; flight three German companies. The fighting continues. -J At Neuville, the French captured a fresh group of houses on the western outskirts, and brought' down an aeroplane near Thiau-| court. ' 'V>! • " * * r * "'b I'HE ENEMY'S VERSION. —' ■♦ ■ 'p- ( ' j ■'■■'If r I J I MEN WITHDRAWN AT NIGHT. (Received May 31. 1.5 a.m.) • /';; , » London, May 30. A Berlin official communique states: "French counter-attacks: on the road from Bethune to Souchez were repulsed along the entire front with terrible losses. Weak Ger- ' man force j were • withdrawn unobserved during the night from the east part of Ablain, otherwise there would have been useless bloodshed. Our airmen dropped ' bombs on Gravelines, Dunkirk and Saint Omer. * - v . "Our troops have drawn nearer the north front *. of , Przemysl. Russian attacks in the (7 region of Sieniawa have not been revived."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 8
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