IN THE CHAMPAGNE.
GERMANS' DIFFICULT; TASK
LONDON, July 22
Reuters correspondent at French' Headquarters, describing the attack on "a four miles front on ;he Chemin-des-Daraes sector on July 18, in which the Fiftieth* Division of Prussian' Guards, conlposed of picked battalions^ participated, and were repulsed, says":' "Everywhere along'the crest the' Germans havo only., a stone's throw" climb to reach the French front linoV ' At some places they are. only lo yardtf ' apart, the French hanging almost ver-' tically over the German/3. The latter,, obtained a single success at one point" because it was practically impossible for the French'artillery to protect its own front line. A desperate hand-to-hand conflict raged all night, but the enemy was driven out of ail his momentary gains by the morning v
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9052, 24 July 1917, Page 5
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