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SECOND ARMY.
Lennox, May 2.-;
Field-Mashal Sir. Douglas Haig,
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GERMANY'S DWINDLING MAN- POWER.
FRANCO-BRITISH ARMIES
WELDED TOGETHER.
LONDON, May 2
Renter's Correspondent at French
the Second Army, mentions the Twenty-Ninth Division, which, by its Headquarters, telegraphing to-dag
states:
Under the German blot, the Allied Armies have been welded
"which" the
gallant action northward of Lys in the early days of the. Lys Battle, nuşirilained their fine fighting record; also the Thirty-Fourth Division for together as never before. There is mony gallant actions around armen now no poins of junction which tieres and Bailleul and at the with-Germans can thrust. The process dmwul from Armentieres in eireum- of welding together the two Armies stances of exceptional difficulty. He is complete but it will not stop there. also mentioned the Thirty-Third The French and British Divisions will Division for their splendid fight on be moved about, on a solidly-knitted April 14, and for gallant actions in Front, at the wish of our High Com- the earlier days of the Lys Battle mand, as freely as the German
Divisions. when the enemy was pressing his advance strongly.
THE LULL.
LONDOS, May
Against the enemy's territorial guins must be set the fact that he had to engage 140 Divisions in five weeks. A considerable number of these have been twice engaged and. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Hoig some three times. Adding to these reports
appearances, there is a total of We repulsed a maid in the neigh-186 engagements Of Divisions. bourhood of Sebutene, but otherwise equivalent to a mass of 2,500,000 there was erly reciprocal artillerymen whom the enemy ma aiready firing.
AERIAL ACTIVITY.
put into the battle. As the Germans Divisions are never, withdrawn until they have sustained the Bevern lows:- of on an average 2.500 men, it is Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reasonable to reckon that the enemy's
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The unfavourable weather yester day only permitted abort recommaise sabees and bombing from a very low height. None of our machines are inissing.
battle, is not less than 360,000.
The Germans begun the offensivp with a reserve of 850,000 in depots in France and at home. Behind theey, is only the 1620 cines, con- We dropped a ton of bombs on the sating of youths, half of whom are railway station and sidings at Thion under eighteen years of age. The ville today. A burst was observed enemy's genuine fighting reserve has ut Curlshutte Works where a fire thus been half exhausted, before he started. Several bursts were also has covered anything like bulf, the chserted in the barracks and at the milway station and sidings..
All our machines returned.
FRENCH PROGRESS IN HANGARD WOOD.
stance to his goal. The reckless employment of Divisions has left him with a total of 66 Divisions out of 206 in Fiance, which have not been engaged. Of these, twelve Divisions are Landstrum Divisions LONDON, May 3. which cannot be used for the pur A French communiqué states:pose of an offensive. The Germans There was rather great reciprocal this can have little bope that the activity to the north. and south of remaining 10. Div sions will accom- We appreciably progress plish what the first 140 Divisions ed in Hangard Wood. We captured have failed to achieve Already the Banne Wood, south-west of Mailly German General Staff must anxions Raevul, taking 80 prisoners and ly be realising that their reserves of capturing hye machine guns. There fresis troops are no greater that those was artillery fighting between Parroy under Generalissimo Foch. Forest and the Vosges
the Avre..
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Loxboy, May 2 A wireless German official, message
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Commenting on the impending battle the Correspondent believes the Germans will be unable to reassem ble the conditions which rendered the manœuvre at Bigs possible, but wilf endeavour to repeat the surprise blow- which answered so well in Marel
le difficulties of manoeuvring large magsak of troops brought into battle x too great to permit of their dia- The main lines o attack, along the Somme towards Amiens and in Flanders upon Haze brouck, are unlikely to be changed!
at experimental local hesaults Possible will a view to opening new sectors of attack. dused the unexpected
We broke aftrough the enemy a
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Lusign, May 2 Renter's Correspondent at British Henkart legpling this even.
areu
Early this moming the Germans heavily borabarded with high explo the Portugues Hive shells west of Marris and the uroullers Bretonneux. There was no infantry
antry action. Pos- sibly the purpose was to practica bamages with view to an early. resumption of the offensive We have been profting, by the lull to SECOND READING UNANIMOUS
propere to, raset any fresh enemy effort. During yesterday we carried out, to south of Anorg. A suc cessful local cupring advancing our front over a width half a mile to a depth of
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