BRITISH ADVANCE AT LENS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 153, 30 June 1917, Page 5

BRITISH ADVANCE AT LENS.

PROGRESS IN A THUNDERSTORM.

\EROPLANES DEFY THE ELE- ' . MENTS.

Australian and N.Z. CaMo Association (Received -Tune 30, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 29. T>ie United Press's Headquarters correspondent states that the British advanced so*ith-west of liens in a terrific -thunderstorm just before dark oh Thursday, advancing an average of five hundred yards along a two nrilo frorjb. They are • still advancing. 'They are half way through A v ion, also well south-eastward oi Lens. The Germans have not coun-ter-attacked, and all the gains nave been consolidated. v The correspondent "watched .the battle from an elevation® behind the j -Canadians. A black. storm-cloud came up, with vivid lightning. The thunderclaps were - indistinguishable from the howitzers. The- infantry: stormed the outskirts of Lens and theplains to the southward, to the accompaniment1 of both__ Heaven's and Sir Douglas.- Haig's artilleries. Aeroplanes defied the: elements: They literally playedwith the storm and again swept the Germans^ fiK»m.: the sky..- ••, ■ ■■■~;-' '■:■■ ■•', ••. ,-..:,• '•■.;■. ..:.