PUSHING THE GERMANS BACK.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 154, 2 July 1917, Page 5

PUSHING THE GERMANS BACK.

THE UNDER-DOIG IfcLING.

(Reuters Teles-rams.) ft (Received July 2,E9i20 aim.) LONfXON, Jiily 1. EReuter's special a-Tiriespottdent at -iritis-li. Heacquaiters r«aysr: '\Up to., « Thursday evening we "-rove been ' systematically pushing iJhe (Germans in a north-easterly diTect-on. The double operations which/vfl<_velbped on -Thursday evening, although, in their "phases, were _hri. -piart the same tactical scheme. Th© enemy's w;thdrawal from1 the miter defences «f Lens tended to weaken tJhe'ir resisting powers on the Otppy -in©, between there and Souchezt, so fpeeasion was taken to strike a Wow, ■■witn satisfactory results.* We made a substantial gain of territory -rownd 'the liens salient at a cost 'of IS^hft'easual- ' ties.. With exceptions tliE en^my. are not fighting well. They Unrew Hrnat they .are going backwards. m "Whether they are told fhat 'it,:is in accordance with plan <ot E.hey realise that they are being Ibea_en - J.ack, the result must equally Ire to . produce an -nnder-dog feeling. ."More '- than once occupants of trenclies .-and ,•-' -jKJsts- bolted at the approacli *_f tour : jnen." - 'v . " .■■: