DEFENCE OF LENS
FURIOUS GERMAN EFFORTS
CANADIANS FIRMLY HOLDING ON
NUMEROUS GUNS CAPTURED,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGBT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 18, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 17th August. The United Press reports: Heavy night fighting has developed in the outskirts of Lens. The Bavarians charged and counter-charged against the Canadians, making mad but vain efforts to retake Hill 70. Eventually the Prussian Guards, bringing aid to the Bavarians, attacked . the centre of the new Lens battlefront, but fell back under our artillery and machine-gun fire. Fresh troops came up on the eastern slopes of Hill 70, forcing the Canadian posts back on the left to the line occupied yesterday morning. The Canadians, however, soon drove them out in confusion, restablished their positions westward of Cite St. Auguste, and repulsed a counter-attack.
The Germans left a considerable nunv ber of guns stuck in the mud.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1917, Page 8
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144DEFENCE OF LENS Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1917, Page 8
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