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

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(Received July 2. 0.0 p.m.) - :' .' ■-. .:;.:. ■■.-■':vLONDpN,,July ; l ■:■:■}_;: .■■The. news of the British offensive created unprecedented esciteinciit in Iwmdon and Parisl ;;; vV •.'•;■. ;

.Yesterday's bombardmerit Ayns more violent; than previbusly- ■/ At some pMi«. the 'British, poured in sli«llßt>t; the rate' of 16 per- second^: •Houses in towns tv/enty-fi v© miles ;d i stan'ttrembled,, and the ground^shook. '■■'■:'- - The spectacle at. niglrt-tiiiie; was

mosfe impressive. As far as ihe-ey^' - oou.lt! seo there was nothing but <t( Jaorizon of fire. The German posiw iioHs were enveloped in fire antfsmoko, and an immense z-ed l-efloctioat filled tho iky. A correspondent of Llo}'d''S Weekly ut headquarters says: "We eaplurciß ' Serro and jMontauban, two important strategical posuions between Hebu^ terne arid Bra.y, hold positions at th#viHages of Cental jMaison and! Mametz, and are attacking1 Beau-« lrionthamel, sis miles north of Albert;., .. We .captured"La Boiselle, two inile^.; north-east of .Albert, taking n;aitjs pnsonei-s: in the front lines.. "The Anglo-French, nghtirig^ witli great gallantry, covered H initeabeyond the German front line,, rapidly occupying the village ofl Curlu, on the Somme, and Fanner^' Wood."