BATTLE STILL HOTLY CONTESTED
BRITISH MAINTAIN ALL POSI- | TIONS WON. ! GERMAN AIRCRAFT OFFENSIVE REPULSED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec; July 4. 1.15 p.m.) I LONDON, July* 3. Sir Douglas Hafg's afternoon report states that the "battle south of the ignore Continues to he hotly contested. ■We maintained all positions won. The fighting in "La Boiselle Valley and Cuillers is particularly severe. On-Sunday evening we penetrated the yillage of La Boiselle. Fighting continues. - Fighting about Cuillers met with varying success. One attack early this morning secured a portion of the hostile defence. Four hundred more prisoners passed to the collecting stations early t-o-day. .Large parties of German air-craft made several attempts at an offensive, but all -were repulsed. Subsequently the air craft were held far behind the German line. As the result, our artillery and machines were able to do their work without interruption. .... There were many aerial com hats. "Wo -"-brought down six hostile machines and five others are damaged. Seven of ours are missing. ••
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Nelson Evening Mail, 4 July 1916, Page 5
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