FRENCH GARRY METZERAL BY ASSAULT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15951, 23 June 1915, Page 7

FRENCH GARRY METZERAL BY ASSAULT.

LINES ADVANCED BEYOND THE VILLAGE.

FIERCE GERMAN ATTACK IN THE WESTERN ARGONNE. Wellington, June 22. The High Commissioner reports from London on June 22; " In the sector north of Arras French squadrons dropped bombs on the enemy's aviation parks, and set fire to four hangars. Two machines and a captive balloon were struck. • i " On the western borders of the Argonne the Germans on Sunday night delivered a> violent lecal attack, which'was prepared .by an intense bombardment with asphyxiating projectiles. The French advanced line was bent at certain points. Two ,'companies > were buried in the destroyed trenches. . By.an:immediate counter-attack almost the whole of the former French position was reconquered. At Calonne the French repulsed German counter-attacks, and enlarged' earlier gains.

"On the Lorraine frontier reconnaissance parties, keeping in contact with the enemy, reached defonsive works west of Gondrexon, and found them unoccupied. The 'Sermons, in retiring, stopped at trenches south of LeLntrey. French progress continues in Alsace, Having captured the cemetery of Metzeral, the French gained possession of the railway station, and thei carried the village by assault. Following a hot, combat, the French line was pushed 500 metres beyond the outskirts of the village in the direction of Meyerhof. The actions yielded numerous prisoners-" ■i