INTENSE ARTILLERY DUEL
GERMAN COMMUNIQUES.
(MS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND tIEDIEH.) LONDON, 13th July. Admiralty per Wireless Press.—A German official message says: The artillery dn«l. kifftMiy) - -jnifiKKfli j.fieCiMS_ja.
Flanders and Artois. We repulsed thrusts eastward of Nieuport and south"east of Ypres, near Hulhch, and southward of the Scarpe. The artillery activity is intense on the west bank of the Mouse. Our storming troops recaptured trenches on Hill 304. We have lost eight and the enemy has lost nineteen aeroplanes LONDON, 14th July. A German official message states: The English attack near Lombartzycle broke down. We occupied, and held against counter-attacks, positions and trenches southward of Boissonlains, north of Reims. We frustrated an attempted thrust south-west of Sommepy. We brought down twenty-one airmen.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 13, 16 July 1917, Page 7
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