FURTHER ATTACKS DEFEATED,

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14407, 18 May 1917, Page 5

FURTHER ATTACKS DEFEATED,

BRILLIANT COUNTER-THRUSTS BY

THE FRENCH

ALL LOST GROUND MADE GOOD

and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.)

(Received May 17, 9.40 p.m.) London, May; 17

A French communique says: The Ger- & mans in the daytime continued" the at- v tacks north and north-west of Laffaux 1 mill as far as the Soissons-Laon railway. They were sanguinarily defeated, despite the strength of the offensives 5 and the violence of the attacks. c We brilliantly counter-attacked at 1 fiome points where the line was momen- j.

The Germans lost heavily in attempting to arrest our progress by fresh attacks, which were shattered by curtain and machine gun fire.