VIOLENT FIGHTING NEAR DIXMUDE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2476, 1 June 1915, Page 5

VIOLENT FIGHTING NEAR DIXMUDE.

(Rec. May 31, 10.15 p.m.) , Dunkirk, May 31. There has boon violent fighting eastward of Dixmude, The Germans recaptuicd Ln Violette Farm, at Oudestukvekonskcrke. Tile Belgian and French troops, vigorously counter-attacking, expelled tho enemy, taking 250 prisoners and capturing machine-guns.

THE FRENCH CAPTURE OF ABLAIN

aXF. OF THE GERMANS' STRONGEST POSITIONS,

(Rec. May 31, 9.30 p.m.)

..... London, May 31. \\ iwi the capture of Ablain the Germans los 9 what is considered to have beeu tnoir most. strongly defended position, after Notre Dame de Lorette. Ablain had -000 defenders, with 100 machine-guns, of wliich many were destroyed by our high-explosive shells. ■ • file Germans had connected the houses by underground ways, in which they sheltered during the trench bombardments, emerging with maxims to meet luo Jjrcucli bayonet charges. • The French therefore had io blow up the houses one by one, and not leave a wall standing, in order to prevent an ambuscade. The Germans have converted numerous factories and colliery works westward of Lens into veritable blockhouses. '

ENEMY'S AERODROME WRECKED.

(Rec. May 31, 9.30 p.m.)

T . , . , , , London,. May 31, , " 1 ® A ,lcs airmen wrecked the enemy's aerodrome at Gontrode, killing 44 soldiers and wounding thirty other's. -