DESPAIRING GERMAN EFFORT TO STEM FRENCH ADVANCE
OVER ; T?REE " ARMY CORPS ON FOUR-MILE FRONT. x •".» '" "' . »■""" ■:'";. /'■•. ' FRENCH ARTILLERY GIVES ENEMY NO . RESPITE. \ : .. •-\ N ,. ■"....', ~'. , .'. • ' London, June 20. The Central News' correspondent at Dunkirk says that the French offensive from Notre Dame de Lorette to Xeuville squeezed 150,000 Germans into a, front of 4j miles, where they are being sacrificed, despito a despairing effort to save the remnants of the defensive system, the French artillery wiping out whole ranks of the enemy. Heavy artillery, mortars, grenades,. and aerial torpedoes are being utilised, and an almost continuous bombardment is automatically followed by bayonet' charges when the Germans are" incapable of resisting. ' • • ' ( A single mine shaft had 250 German.defenders,wf whom 200 were wiped out, the rest being taken prisoner. A. Stream in the Souchez village was blocked.with German dead. '" - German. heavy artillery " continues 'its bombardment, and the French advance is proving costly. One shell struck the : village of Marequi, where there were 160 billeted, the shell killing 80.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15950, 22 June 1915, Page 7
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163DESPAIRING GERMAN EFFORT TO STEM FRENCH ADVANCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15950, 22 June 1915, Page 7
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