FINE WORK BY AUSTRALIANS SECURES NEW POSITIONS
ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REPULSED PLAUSIBLE OFFERS
Tho news from tho Western front to-day-is featured by a noteworthy exploit by the Australians, as tho result of which tho British lino has been advanced slightly, .it a. cost of very few casualties; A heavy German attack on the French front was a complete failure Apart from those operations, thero is no evidenco yet of tho next German offonaive. Ono correspondent suggests that the British artillery fire is so intense that tho enemy is unable to mass for his attempts on our line. The Now Zealanders, according to a dienatch from the Now Zealand eorreepondont, have also beon in action in a trench raid. No developments of moment are reported from tho other war theatres. Tho British advanced troops in Palestine! liavo withdrawn across (ho Jordan. In Ireland the campaign for resisting the Government's conscription proposals is spreading. Lord French's appointment (o the Viceroyalty in Ireland is regarded as an indication that the Government means business.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 196, 8 May 1918, Page 5
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171FINE WORK BY AUSTRALIANS SECURES NEW POSITIONS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 196, 8 May 1918, Page 5
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