AN OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE FIGHTING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 121, 23 May 1916, Page 5

AN OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE FIGHTING.

; | (Reed. 9.10 p.m., May 22). • I j PARIS, May 22. a"* A communique says: battle continued all day desperately between Avocourt .Wood and the Meuse. We captured two trenches in the vicinity of the Esnes-Haucourt road. Our artillery entirely wrecked a small work occupied by the enemy on the 18th. The enemy immediately, east of Hill 304, launched an attack which momentarily penetrated our first line .but the attackers were quickly driven out. A violent offensive by an enemy brigade on the weaieiii siopes of Mort Homme was stopped. Batteries caught enemy columns following the assaulting waves, which were compelled to fall back. The enemy violently bombarded the Douaumont sector. We sharply attacked and captured Haudromont quarries, which had been strongly organised by the enemy.