THE FRENCH OPERATIONS
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY ON BOTH SIDES. GROUND GAINED BY LOCAL OPERATIONS. SUCCESSFUL BOMBING AS REPRISALS. (Australian and New Zealand and Reuter.) Received May 3, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, May 3. French official: The artillery on both sides is active, particularly northwest of Rheims and in Champagne. Local operations gained us ground west of Mount Cornille. The day was quiet everywhere else. As a reprisal for the enemy bombing Chalons and Epernay, Ove French machines bombed Treves, causing a violent conflagration.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13475, 4 May 1917, Page 5
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