SEVERE FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 3 August 1917, Page 7

SEVERE FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS.

BRITISH GUN POWER PREPONDERANT. (Received Aug 3, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. Reuters headquarters correspondent states: Despite bad weather impeding the operations^ there has been severe fighting for the past twenty-four hours. The Germans are manifestly perturbedl .at our gaining so much high, ground at! Pilken ridge and launched several des-J _perate counter-attacks, throwing in their best special storming troops to try to retrieve the situation. Our preponderance in gun power enables us to maintain a steady barrage at the GerBaan rear through which reinforcements have to come before an attack can be organised.