OFFENCE LAUNCHED IN BRILLIANT FASHION
MAIN! BATTLE-LINE TWENTY-FIVE MILES LONG. ■ TWA-nrjr RECONNAISSANCES ALONG WHOLE FROST. VIOLENT AF.TIILEBY FIGHTING ON YSZB FRONT. ! J (Received 11.10 a.m.) .PAEIS. July i Tae "Petit Parisien" states that the Franco-Bnush offensive was launched in brilhanij fashion. The Briti.-h seized the enemy's first line defences, and the ' French, wjest of Peronne. liberated four vi!!as?> from the invader. The i principal ljiattle is developing in a jertor forty kilometres . i 4 long, ot which the|British are attacking on i'> > l.j milesi. Numerous r ,, - I are bein:j made elsewhere, especially in the L"os sector. i Amsterdam advice? repTt a violent artillery action on the Vser fronr, including jieaw <runrir» of warsiupe. It is believed that the British monitor* are firing jon the trennan? acros= we dunes in order to render a German infantry ajdvance impossible. !
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 157, 3 July 1916, Page 5
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