FRENCH REPORTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13771, 7 May 1915, Page 6

FRENCH REPORTS.

London, May 6, 2.30 p.m. In Belgium the Allies captured a German trench, and pushed their lines j forward between Lizerne and Netsas, of which they are masters. In Champagne, west of Perthes, and in tho Argonne at Four de Paris and | Calonne trench, German attacks completely failed. The enemy's loss <*r as heavy. j In the forest of Ailly. the enemy j gained a footing in tho first line on \ ground recntly taken by_ the Allies, but j half of it was almost immediately ie-: captured. The. result of a second at- j tack- to regain the remainder is as vet. unknown. ■ - \ In the wood of Mortmare three Ger- ' man counter-attacks were repulsed with great loss to the enemy. In Alsace, on the north bank of tho Fecht, the Allies continue to gain ground, and seized a peak east of Sillakerwasen. The Allies progressed in the direction of the river near Steinbach.