GERMAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE.

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

GERMAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Heuter.)

(Admiralty, per Wireless Press)

(Received May 16, 6.10 p.m.)

London, May 15

A.German official message says: —■ "We stormed and captured St. Berthe farm, cast of Fontaine-le-Maison. We also retained against four attacks'the newly-captured line on Height 108, northward of SapignerJ. We repulsed an attack on the village of Blance. We brought down seven enemy aeroplanes.'*