NOT UP TO TIME-TABLE.
MUCH BOMBING ACTIVITY
AUSTRALIANS SCORE SUCCESS.
THB ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT.
(Renter's Telegram.) (Received May 4, 10.50 aim.) LONDON, May 3. Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters says : The Germans have not renewed their efforts to advance m Flanders or the Sorame, and their objective time-tables indicate that they are finding their task much heavier than they anticipated. On Thursday night there was much bombintr activity on both sides, our airmen inflicting heavy casualties. The Australians carried out a successful minor operation at Villers Bretonneux. while the Canadians mopped up a strong post further north.
The British rushed a machine-gun emplacement, clearing it out.
A tremendous crescendo of gunfire has broken out this morning, apparently m the Lys region.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 3
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