FRENCH RECAPTURE TRENCHES WEST OF THIAUMONT.
PROGRESS AT FLEURY BY MEANS OF GRENADES. GERMAN ATTACK SOUTH OF MORT HOMME REPULSED. PARIS. JUNE 25. A French communique states :—"Our fire stopped an attack on the trenches and slopes southward of Mort Homme. A counter-attack restored to us some portions of trenches westward of Thiaumont work. We made progress at Fleury by means of grenades. "On the left bank of the Meuse there is intense artillery fire in the region of Hill 304. At Mort Homme, and at Chattajncourt, on the right bank, the bombardment was redoubled in violence at the end of the afternoon in the sectors Froide, Terre, and Fleury."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16266, 27 June 1916, Page 7
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