MOTHER RUSSIAN FORCE
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'"A. fresh contingent of Russians has landed at Brest. The men go to an instruction camp, and thence to tlu ■front.
AN ALLfED ATTACK
ALONG A BIG FRONT.
•GERMANS CLAXVi SUCCESSES
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
(Press Assn. —Reed. 10.5 p.m.)
(AMSTERDAM, Ju'y 21
A German communique says: The English attacked in considerable force ! our positions west and north of Fromelles. Aj counter-attack threw them back from the points penetrated. The English again penetrated Longueval and Delville Farm, but counter-attacks compelled them to retire, though thpy still hold portions of the village and farm. Anglo-French attacks along the whole front from Fourneaux Woods to the Somme began this morning. The first attack was broken. The French in the afternoon made two unfruitful attacks in the region of BelIcy and were, thrice repulsed in the morning on the Estrees-Hoyicourt sector.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1916, Page 3
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