BATTLE AT LENS
A MOST VIOLENT ASSAULT
PRISONERS FEW AND EXHAUSTED
FALL OF LENS FORECASTED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPTRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received August 17, 1 p.m.)
PARIS, 16th August.
The Matin states that the impetuous assault of tfhe British was the most violent witnessed for ten months past. The merciless violence of the fight and its swiftness explain the small number. of men captured. The few prisoners taken were completely exhausted and depressed. They belong to old classes, and many of them had been invalided early in the war.
The Petit . Journal says : "If the British attacks north of Lens are continued the fall of Leas is imminent."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8
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