THE FRENCH FRONT
BARRAGE FIRE BREAKS UP ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS.
(Australian and New Zealand and Reuter.) Received May 2, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, May 2. There has been lively artillery fire in various sectors at Moronvillers, where our barrage twice broke up heavy counter-atacks against the positions we captured on Monday, when 520 prisoners and five gun 6 were captured. A Belgian communique reports violent reciprocal artillery flre north of Dixmude. FRENCH CLING TO GAINS DESPITE FURIOUS COUNTER-ATTACKS. (Renter's Telegrams.) * Received May 2, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, May 2. Reuter's corespondent at French headquarters, referring to the furiouß German counter-attacks in Champagne, says the French cling to their gains They are greatly assisted by the ruse of sending up olouds of dense smoke to obscure the organisation of their new line.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13474, 3 May 1917, Page 5
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