ATTACK ON MORT HOMME.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5446, 1 June 1916, Page 5

ATTACK ON MORT HOMME.

THE MOST POWERFUL IET.

f >ar is, Last Night, lersterday tiie Gorman attack on Mort Homme and Cumieres was the most powerful yet attempted, the enemy using fresh divisions and suftenng appalling losses. The withdrawal from the Beth ip - court-Cumieres road was only a hundred yards in depth.

WHAT THE HUNS CLAIM

Amsterdam. Last Night. A German communique states: We captured the entire French positions between the southern ridge of Mort Homme and Cumieres, taking prisoner 1300 men. Oar avaitors attacked enemy destroyers off Ostend.

OBSTINATE STRUGGLES

NEW OFFENSIVE.

Paris. Last Night. The “Petit Parisien” states that the new- German offensive on Mort Homme and Cumieres began on Sunday evening. An unusual movement was noticed in Crow’s wood and the enemy debouched in columns. Artillery fire stopped them before they reached the French trenches. The Germans redoubled their bombardment for several hours and attacked again and again after midnight. All the assaults failed. The bombardment was resumed for the entire morning with unprecedented intensity, and a whole division emerged from Crow’s wood during the afternoon. The first waves were forced to take shelter in shell ♦raters, and their reinforcements crept up on their hands and knees, (some leached the trenches, but were annihilated. The obstinacy of the sti uggle nearer Cumieres was even more marked. The Germans attacked ten timers and were repulsed with bayonets and grenades. The Germans in the eleventh assault occupied three hundred yards of trenches, bat their position is precarious.

V RUITL ESS BOM BAR DM ENTS

Paris, Last Night

The “Petit Parisien’s” Salonika correspondent states that General .Sariail. when questioned on the enemy's artillery activity, shrugged his shoulders and remarked: —'*All this Is merely to conceal the relieving of troops. They are wasting « lot of munitions which are of poor quality and josultloss. We will leave them alone for the present. We will reply *f they become annoying. They used 2850 shells in a week at one point and killed one of my men and wounded another.”