TREMENDOUS EFFORT TO RETAKE BULLECOURT.

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

TREMENDOUS EFFORT TO RETAKE BULLECOURT.

FOUR CONCERTED ATTACKS,

TWO BROKEN BY ARTILLERY

SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-ATTACK

SLIGHT ENEMY GAIN IN THE FOURTH ATTEMPT.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Renter.)

(Received May 16, 9 p.m.)

London, May 16

Sir Douglas Haig reports: Further details of the fighting this morning show that the enemy deliberately attempted by/ four strong concerted attacks, powerfully supported by a.'tillery, to drive us out of Bulleeourt and the section of the Hindenbuxg hue eastward of the village.

The first attack temporarily gained a footing in our trenches on the right flank of the position on the Riiidenburg line, but our counter-attack immediately ejected the enemy, -vho left 240 killed and wounded.

Our artillery dispersed a simultaneous attack on the left flank, and iopulsed the third attack at the northeastern corner of Bulleeourt.

The fourth attack, delivered from the south and south-east, drove hack our posts in the western porticri of the village for a hundred yards.

The enemy's losses..were heavy. The hostile artillery fire is heavy on the Scarpe.