GRIP OF THE BULLDOG AT GIVENCHY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 5

GRIP OF THE BULLDOG AT GIVENCHY.

BRITISH BOMBARD THE BRICKYARD FORTRESS. FIKST LINE OF TRENCHES TAKEN WITH BAYONET. LONDON. June 21. A British officpr. in a letter describing the assault on La Bassee. says: — "Artillery poured a tempest of shells on the Givenchy brickfields. You could *cc high-explosive shells rrash square on the fort-like blocks of brick, baked nolid. You watch the great cloud of smoke roll away, and expect to see the brick-stack shattered, but find hardly a dent. Nevertheless, your own experience tells you that the defenders are suffering from fragments of shell and showers of broken brick, which are breaking their bodies and shattering * their nerves. The bombardment continues day and night, the British meanwhile enjoying the advantage of attackers, and b?ing able to rest in wellcovered positions until the moment came to advance. Meantime, the Germans did not know when cr where the attack would fall. -The first infantry rush took place at six in the evening. Inside an hour the front line of trenches was taken and most of the defenders killed. The fight continued in the darkness, lit up by a constant succession of flares, while the Germans hurried up reinforcements by trains nnd motors. We, however, had got our teeth in with a bulldog grip which would not come awny without tearing out the piece." VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACK IN ARGONNE REPULSED. FRENCH STILL ADVANCING IN VALLEY OF THE FECHT. WELLINGTON, .June 21. The High Commissioner reports from London on June 21: — Jn the sector north of Arras the French are masters of fond de Buval (Buval Bottom). An attack in the direction of Souchcz resulted in progress of three-fifths of a mile. In the \rgonne a violent attack by the. enemy has been repulsed and »nmn prisoners taken. On the height of the Mouse two enemy lines were tarried and "0 prisoners captured. The French arrived near Reillon, in Lorraine, a centre of resistance, The,j effeneivt in the valley of the Fecht, in Alsace, continues Jo progress , j