ATTACK SOUTH-WEST OF YPRES REPULSED.
.;' ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE NORTH OF ALBERT. ft ' r Y'" r ';■"•" '.. - " -" " '"■ (Received 9.45 a.m.)' : : ; LONDON, June 23—2.10 a.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports:We completely repulsed a strong local attack delivered after a heavy" bombardment, this evening, westward of Merris, in the Ypres sector. We took a number of prisoners in successful raids in the neighbourhood of Morlaneourt and at Buequoy. There is active hostile • artillery fighting in the neighbourhood of Aveluy wood, two miles north of Albert.—(A. and N.Z. and Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1918, Page 5
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