BRITISH STILL DRIVING ROUND LENS
NEW GROUND WON AND CONSOLIDATED. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. June 29. The United Press Association headquarters correspondent states that the British advanced south-west of Lens in a terrific thunderstorm just before dark on Thursday, advancing an average of five hundred yards alone a twomile front. They arc still advancing and are half way through Avion and also well south-eastward of Lens. The Germans have not counter-attacke-L AY. the gains have been consolidated. The correspondent watched the battle from an elevation behind the Canadians. A black stormcloud tame up with vivid lightning and thunderclaps, indistinguishable from the howitzers. The infantry stormed the outsorts of I>ens and the plains southward to the accompaniment of both Heaven's 2.nd Haig's artillery. Aeroplanes defied the elements, literally played with the storm, and again swent the Germans from the sky.— (United Service.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 155, 30 June 1917, Page 5
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