WESTERN CAMPAIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CIV, Issue 15980, 5 June 1916, Page 8

WESTERN CAMPAIGN

! GERMANS ATTACK. AT MANY ! VOiXTS. ; j FORT YAUX EXTFRED. ! (Hiylt Commissioner's Cable.) i LOXDOX, June 3 iA-'J.j i>.ni.'i. | Til Champagne, west oi Mont ioiu j tncsny elements which penetrated i small advanced pests ioliownvi an in- : lease bou-hardtiicut wviv oa-:Gueeu b\ ! French ee.nuf.r-auaoks v.-uli "tvnades. j J it the Are.omie last, evening a Ger- ; men attack <>n a. salient. in o'.u* line vx-i oi La Fille Mortc was repubsed after a lively combat-. A second attack launched ::t o cloak in the evening e; a;;: iv I.: i i e; 1. On i-!-o. lei'r hank ci" the Mer.se our petitions at Jli 1! 3- ! 4 and our .second ; iiiiL.s v.■- 1 j;Lled i'i a violent bardnientOn the riah: bank haUiine continued at Yaux Fori '.villi the same violence. All attempts of the enemy on <uir trenches l'roni the west and east were repulsed. • Again-l the Fort th". Germans multiplied their furious a«\sauU s . respite the ra rapes caused by our curtain ef lire rutd ;irn. The. enemy was eoiiii.-ietely del'eated. However, in the coarse of the night, i'raetions of the enemy peneirated a. trench in a north wci k in tile hitr-rior <;f the fai't in whii-h v.e maintained >iur."e!ve-'.

G Eli-WAN ATTACK ON WHITISH; KIUTISII COUN'IT.u-KAID. LONDON". .1 uno :3 <2-5 n.m.V A Drit-ish official communique states: There. was sharp lighting on 1' riday in iho Yprcs oa » front of three thousand yards, following artillery aetivity Thursday. The Gorman* b<>with au intense sustained at*tillei\ tire, followed by infantry attacks winch penetrated our front- r.t several points, but were repulsed elsewhere. On Thursday night, niter a combined artillery bombardment, our infantry pene--1 xrated the German trenches,, but subsequently v.- i t hdrovr. The German statement-- that strnnp; English forces vrcro rcpul.sed in this vicinity is untrue.