HEAVY BRITISH CAPTURES DURING JUNE.
ENEMY'S SHORTAGE OF GUNS AND AMMUNITION. LONDON. July 2. - report from -Sir Douglas Ilaig states: —During June we captured S.6SS ans, including 175 officers: 67 guns and howitzers, including two heavy * Uni: 102 trenelf mortars. 335 rnaebine-guns. and great quantities of other aaterial_, A aml _ vz _ and Keuu , r } -v special article on the West front, published in the "Morning Post."' e= that there are abundant indications that the Germans are short of s™3 and ammunition. Although many guns are massed at certain points, •*>* rest of the line has been skinned in order to enable this to be done. The counter battery work never ceases. When an enemy battery is c ected, suddenly anything from 150 to 500 British heavy shells are turned on the srot . j n thu vay [t jg pjrtimate(i the Irtish have destroyed L2SO ' Wman during the past 23 weeks.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 157, 3 July 1917, Page 5
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