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The Great Battle i COUNTER ATTACK AT LIHONS. REPULSED WITH HEAVY ENEMY LOSS. ■ (Received 12, 4.8 p.m.) London, Aug. 11 (10.20 p.m.) . ! A British official report states: -This morning the enemy, with fresh divisions, strongly attacked our positions at Lihons, and were repulsed with great loss. At one point. north of Lihons the Germans broke in our positions, but our counter-attack restored the line. , On our right the French progressed southwest and south of Roye. (High Commissioner’s Message.) | THE MURDER OF KITCHENER. * BIRON STURMER EX-RUSSIAN MINISTER. | (Received 12, 2.5 p.m.) Vancouver, Aug. 111. ' Edwin Day, an. Englishman, formerly in charge of a munition plant in Russia and a refugee here, states that Baron Sturmer, an ex-Russian Minister, was responsible for the death of Earl Kitchener. Sturmer was German born and a German sympathiser. He knew Lord Kitchener sailed ui the Hampshire for Russia and informed Germany. After the Hampshire was sunk Sturmer disappeared. —(Router.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 214, 12 August 1918, Page 6
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