DOUBLE SANGUINARY DEFEAT.
ENEMY DRAWING ON RESERVES
FRENCH LOOK FOR FINAL RESULT
WITH ABSOLUTE CONFID- ; ENCE.
\Eeceived June 1, 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 31. Semiofficial : The enemy's powerful general operations against the whole ot the Mort Homme-Cumieres region were followed on Monday afternqoii by a double bloody defeat at Mort Homme and H.-ll 304. .
■ ihe Germans succeeded in taking, doubtless temporarily, some portions ol the first line trenches by throwing a whole division upon the two-mile fiunt.
; , Participation in this action by fresh troops, drawn fiom another part of the Western front proves that the exhaustion of his reserves compels the enemy to deplete the quiet'. sectors. ' Tlio French look for a .filial result of these costly blows with absolute Limfidence..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 3
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