WEST FRONT.
SOMME AND MEUSE.
GERMAN REVERSES.
High Commissioner's Cable.
LONDON, August 18. Sir Douglas Raig reports: There is greatly increased enemy artillery fire. North-west of Bazentin-le-Petdt, by means of a small local enterprise, we further extended our gains in the enemy lines. The German trenches were found greatly damaged ajid full of enemy dead. A "further hostile attack near Martinpuich last night was repulsed as completely as th© previous dries.
-The French official message states: * Several enemy counter-attacks south-east of Maurepas were broken. On the east of thfe Meuse the Germans were chased outof Fleury, some fractions of their force, however, maintaining themselves in a part of the imins of the village. We made progress between Thiaumont and Fleurv.
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Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 9
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120WEST FRONT. Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 9
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