WESTERN OFFENSIVE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 10

WESTERN OFFENSIVE.

CAPTURE OF BULLECOURT.

DETERMINED COUNTER-ATTACKS.

BRITISH SLIGHTLY FORCED

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THE ATTACKS REPULSED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Router.)

London, May 10.

Sir Douglas Haig reports: There were small night outpost engagements isouth-eastward of Epehy.

The enemy heavily bombarded our positions. at Bullecourt and on the Hindenburg line, delivering two determined counter-attacks.

• Their attempt on the Hindenburg line completely failed.

The attack on Bulloeourt was also repulsed after heavy fighting, in which our advance posts in the north-west portion _of the village were forced back a short distance.

■Our artillery stopped a counter-attack south-eastward of Loos.

.We successfully raided German trenches near Ypres.