GERMAN INFANTRY INACTIVE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

GERMAN INFANTRY INACTIVE.

A VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT

ENEMY AIRCRAFT LOSSES

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received May 9, 10.20 p.m.) London, May 9. The

A French communique says enemy infantry arc inactive north-east of Soissons and the Chemin-des-Daines. but their artillery, "which ours violently countered, bombarded the Cerny, Hurtbise and Craonne sectors..

Grenade skirmishes occurred east of Vauxaillon. and elsewhere there .has been cannonading.

Twenty-five German aeroplanes were indubitably, destroyed in air fighting from the Ist to the 7th of May. besides 51 which were crippled and fell in the German lines.