DESPERATE DEFENCE OF LENS
ONLY A NARROW TRACK FOR
GERMANS.
(Received August 17, 3 p.m.)
LONDON, 16th August. The enemy is desperately holding out in Lens, where there was heavy fighting all day. The Canadians last night crushed the Germans like.flies, and had bloodily repulsed ten oounter-.attacks by 9 o'clock, when the enemy. broke off the fight.
The fourth, Guards Division was practically annihilated as it marched into Lens, into which only a narrow neck leads across the open country, which is swept by the British artillery and ma-chine-guns.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8
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