In the West.
ON THE BRITISH FRONT. VIGOROUS ENEMY RAID. United Pbehs Association. London, May 21. Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy on Friday night raided our line southwest of and entered our first trendies, but they were driven out immediately. The enemy's attempt to nisi; a post westward of Wicltje was frustrated. The North Lancashire Fusiliers recaptured the crater lost on the Vimy ridge on the 18th. We blew up a mine in tlie Hullueh sector and occupied the crater. LARCE GERMAN CONCENTRATIONS. Amsterdam, May 19. A press message reports large German concentrations on the British front. Twenty thousand fresh troops have been sent to La Bassee. The greatest activity has begun at Ypres and Lens. FRENCH PENETRATE GERMAN LINES.
Pan's, May 21. A communique says : A roup de mam enabled us to penetrate the enemy's lines north-west of Ville-sur-Tourbe. The occupants of the trench were killed or taken prisoner. The Germans, after an extremely violent bombardment, launched a widespread attack on the whole of the Mort Homme region. They momentarily entered our first line to the eastward, but they were driven out with heavy loss. After a series of deadly and fruitless assaults westward anil on the northern slopes of Mort Homme the Germans occupied some elements of an advanced trench. Some contingents reached the second line and were caught by a violent fire from our guns. They retreated in disorder, leaving numerous dead, german advance fails, french Capture a fort. London, May 20. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent reports that fifteen thousand Germans on Thursday advanced on a front of a mile and a quarter on both sides of Hill 257, and retired only when hundreds had been shot down. Later a fresh-fifteen thousand advanced repeatedly and desperately, but they only captured a small field work. When the French captured a fort on the north-eastern slope of Hill 304 the first wave was stopped twenty yards from the work, the second gained the parapet, and the third overwhelmed the trenches. The French found 150 dead, and they captured machinei guns, mortars, rifles, and bombs. GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF TRENCHES. Amsterdam, May 19. A German communique says: We captured trenches on both sides of the Haucourt-Fsnes road to a heightsouthward of the Camaro Wood. A French attack on Hill 304 collapsed with considerable losses. Boehlke brought down Ins sixteenth aeroplane southward of Upont. BELGIANS CALLED UP. London, I\lay 20. M. Lametrophe states that the Belgian War Office has decided to call up all Belgians aged 18 to 35 sojourning in the unoccupied territory of Belgium and also in France and Britain.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 22 May 1916, Page 2
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