A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14408, 19 May 1917, Page 5

A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

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(Admiralty, per Wireless;)

(Received May 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 17. A German official message says:— "Owing to strong English counter-at-tacks we gave up the ground captured at Roi;ex. We repulsed English attacks northward of the Scarpe and south-west of Reincourt. TJiuring May we captured 2300 English prisoners on -this front." j