GERMAN ATTACK ON THE AISNE
(Received August 16, 11 a.m.)
PARIS, 15th August. A communique states : There has been great artillery fire on the Somme front.
A German detachment after a heavy bombardment penetrated a small salient of our lines north-west of Heaurge, northward of the Aisne. Our counterattack threw them out.
Our Grenadiers brilliantly took three hundred yards of trenches, a depth of hundred yards northwards of ChapelleSainte Fine.
The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, 15th August, 2.55 p.m. The French official report states: There is great artillery activity in the Somme region. On the right bank of the Meuse, north of Chapelle-Sainte Fine, enemy trenches were taken on a front of 330 yards to a depth of 100 yards. ' A counter-attack was broken.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 40, 16 August 1916, Page 7
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