THE LONGUEVAL ATTACK
A SHREWD MOVEMENT.
GALLANT 'BRITISH RESISTANCE. Australian and N.Z. Cable, Association (Press Assn. —Reed. 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 21. United Service—The "Daily Mail's" correspondence writes that the German attack on Longueval was shrewdly conceived. If it had been.successful it would have endangered the front where the Franco-British lines meet. The enemy pretends that only a brigade was engaged but the French experts estimate,there were six divisions on a two-and-a-half- mile" front Despite the .tremendous, odds, and exceptional German fury, the .-British magnificently withstood the attack. 1
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1916, Page 3
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89THE LONGUEVAL ATTACK Northern Advocate, 22 July 1916, Page 3
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