GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT.
Received June 3, 5.5 p.m
LONDON, June 2.
Wireless German official.—There is increased artillerying at Wytschaete bend, Lens and on the north bank of the Scarpe. We took prisoners, who included Portuguese.
We captured a French position on a thousand metres front near Alternant, north-east of Soissons and repulsed repeated counter-attacks.
We pxisdhered on the Western front during May 237 officers and 13,500 men. We also captured three guns, 211 machine-guns, 43i q'uick-loade/rs and eighteen minethrowers. I . The Bulgarians captured an outpost position near Alcockmar, on the western bank of the Vardar.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17004, 4 June 1917, Page 5
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