FRENCH ADVANCE FROM NEUVILLE TO LORETTE
150,000 GERMANS SQUEEZED INTO 44-MILE FRONT. FRENCH ARTILLERY WIPING OUT WHOLE RANKS. BAYONET CHARGES UPON DAZED ENEMY. (Received 0.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. The "Central Nexrs" Dunkirk correspondent says that the French offensive from Notre Dame de Lorette to Neuville squeezed 150,000 Germans into a front of 4J miles, where they are being sacrificed, despite a despairing effort to save the remnants of the defensive system, the French artillery wiping out whole ranks of the enemy. Heavy artillery, mortars, grenades, and aerial torpedoes are being utilised, v and an almost continuous bombardment is automatically followed by bayonet charges when the Germans are incapable of resisting. A single mine shaft had 250 German defenders, of whom 200 were wiped out, the rest being tnken prisoner. A stream in the Souchez village was blocked with Herman dead. German heavy artillery continues its bombardment, und our advance is proving costly. One shell struck the village of Marequi_. where there were 100 billeted, the shell killing SO.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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