"UNDER-DOG" FEELING.
ENEMY READS HIS .DOOM.
(Reuter Cable.) (Press Assn.—Reed. 9.20 p,m.) LONDON, July 1.
Router's special correspondent at British headquarters says: "Up to Thursday evening we were systematically pushing the 'Germans in a northeasterly direction.. The double operations which developed on Thursday evening, .although distinct in their phases, were parts of the .sam| e tactical scheme. The enemy's withdrawal to the outer defences of Lens tended to weaken the resisting powers of the Oppy line, between thiere 'and the. Soucbez River; so the occasion was taken to strike a blow, with satisfactory results. We have made substantial gain of territory round the Lsms salient. It cost us light casualties, With some exceptions. The enemy is not fighting well. He knows that he is .going backward, and whether told that it is in with plan' or that he realises he is being b)?aten back, the .result must equally be to produce the 'under-dog' feeling. More than once occupants of German trenches and posts have bolted at the approach, of our men."
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Northern Advocate, 2 July 1917, Page 3
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