FIRST GERMAN POSITION CAPTURED.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 4

FIRST GERMAN POSITION CAPTURED.

THiATJMONT' WORK;3IE-;-!;:

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;^usti-alian; arid; :&.Z;^abie ■;;' ■'A-icomhuthiqu«':says;^:NbrthTivavd;an.'df •> 'soiitJiwardof-'the:;.Somme;^tlie v ;Franco-;\.\.--British developed-an -offensive pri, a' :/ fprt\r kilometre [i, and capturetl i the fm>t Gmanan position: salons; vtlies- v : whole Ifront ofrafctapk:.. , The French, nort,hwapdCaf; the;'Spmmet established!^ ! thems,elves'pon: the: outskirts of Bdrde-: '■': coiti-t'ancl t\\o fringe of the '< villa^p oil' , !<3.uritiiV-:"';'-:w3iei?e fighting.; qdHttnues^ ■-. Southward; of-the Sotnniethe village-!^; of iD.ampierre, Becqnineourt,; 'Bitsius,,;;; and -IP&y are in Our handsJ' './:m ': - : ■ The French ; iipwrarcte of 3500 vinivottridedjnen. . '~ ' ThOTe;''-h'as';\beeri:;ar'i yiolent\-bo^hai*^;:';;> meiit of the^ vvhplo region: at Hill; 30# ahd^Mprthomme^ ' Oiir infantry re> captni-ed Thiauniont'WbFk. ;(^ '^v.'V / .