WEST FRONT
GERMAN REPORT.
BRITISH ATTACKS FAIL,
FRENCH FOOTHOLD AT VERDUN.
Reuter's Telegrams. (Admiralty per Wireless Press.) (Rec. August 24,-5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 23.
' German official: Repeated English attacks between- Langemarck and Hoilebeke were driven back, aftcc stubborn hand-to-hand fighting. Many tanks wore destroyed. We maintained our position on a fifteen-kilometre front except at two places eastward of St. Julien, and on the Ypres-Menin Road. We repulsed attacks at Lens. Fighting continues. French attacks at Vurdun gained a foothold in a trench.
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1917, Page 3
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