AN EARLY MORNING ATTACK
BETWEEN LENS AND LOOS
STORMY AND WET WEATHER.
(Received August 16, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 15th August.
Sir Douglas Haig reports: We attacked early this morning on a wide front from the north-western outskirts of Lens to Bois Hugo, north-east of Loos, and carried the first lines at all points. We are making satisfactory progress. We completely crushed a counter-attack east of Cite St. Elie.
The French gained further ground north-west of Bixschoote. We repulsed raiders eastward of Klein Zillebeke.
The weather is stormy, with heavy rain.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1917, Page 8
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