SIX DAYS' BATTLE
DELYTLLE BOMBARDMENT BEYOND PRECEDENT. (Rec. Jplv 31, 10.55 a.m.) " LONDON. Jury 50. Mr Beach Thomas says the Pozier.-s battle was six days of constant stre-~. some of the soldiers had no sleep tor four days. A Brigadier-General hud one and'a-half hours in six days. The i Germans used egg-sized bombs, which a good cricketer threw a hundred yards. Thev also used the biggest guns, tie shells falling in the lines with a regula.rhvthm. The mutual bombardment at Delvi.'e Wood tvas without- precedent. A hvmdrsd * thousand shell Tvere fired. PROGRESS CONTINUES. (Rec- Julv 31. 11.25 a.m.) PETROGRAD.. July 30. A communique says that the Rus*sians continue the pursuit near Kovel *and Brody and southward of the Dniester.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 31 July 1916, Page 5
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