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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13474, 3 May 1917, Page 5

AERIAL SUCCESSES CLAIMED. (Admiralty per Wireless Press.) Received May 3, 1 p.m. LONDON, May 2. German official: The English advance west of Lens and near Monchy and Fontaine failed. We repulsed the French at Cerny and on the Aisne. There is artillery intensity along the whole front. We repulsed French thrusts on the Chemin des Dames Ridge. During the Champagne fighting on Monday we took over 400 prisoners. The enemy yesterday lost 14 aeroplanes. ACTIVITY ON FRENCH FRONT. GERMAN LINES PENETRATED. (Autralian and N.Z. and Reuter.) Received May 3, 1.25 p.m. LONDON, May 2. Sir Douglas Haig reports that during the night there was artillery activity between St. Quentin and Lens. We repulsed a German raid at Fauquissart. A French communique reports great reciprocal artillery activity in the region of Chemin des Dames and on the Cerny-Hurtebise-Craonne front. Our machine guns and grenades repulsed enemy partial attacks on our trenches. There was a violent artillery struggle last night in the sectors of Mont Cornillet and Mont Hay, in Champagne. After lively grenade fighting in the woods west of Mont Cornillet, in which we progressed, detachments penetrated the German lines at different points near Les Eparges. Our air squadrons on Monday night bombed several railway stations and military establishments in the region of Laon, Vaizier and Rethel, causing fires. BIG ANGLO-FRENCH CAPTUREB. ENEMY DIVISIONS EXHAUSTED. EFFECTIVES MELTING AWAY. SOME DESERT—OTHERS GO MAD. (Australian and N.Z. and Reuter.) Received May 3, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, May 2. ML Marcel Hutin states that between April 16 and 30 the English and French captured 40,603 prisoners, 437 heaw guns. 346 trench mortars, and 882 machine-guns. The Petit Parisien states that 24 enemy divisions, which were launched on the British front, had to be relieved from further participation. The enemy's effectives melted away amazingly. Many of the survivors deserted, and some went mad.