WESTERN.
ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON FLANDERS FRONT.
French Success East of VillersCotterets Forest-
Australian and N Z Cable Assoc . and Reuter Bee July 15, 11 45 a m London, July 14
Sir Douglas Haig reports ; Hostile nrtillery is active north of Albert, westward of Keminel Hill, and southward and south-westward of Ypres. Our guns are active at a number of points. A French communique reports: A successful action north and south of Lonapont, east of Villers Cotterets Forest, advanced our positions eastward. We crossed .the Suvieres, a tributary of theOutcq despite enemy resistance. A wireless German oflietul message admits that the French obtained possession c£ Uaatel and Auchin Farm The Germans claim to have shot down 4GB hostile aeroplanes in Juue, and that they lost 153.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7010, 17 July 1918, Page 3
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