GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.
LENS UNDER FIRE. WITHDRAWAL AT RIGA. Amsterdam, January 6. A Berlin official message states: — " A French hand-grenade attack north of Lamesnil was easily repulsed. The allied artillery have been uninterruptedly shelling Lens, north of Arras. " An allied aerial attack at Douai failed, and two British aeroplanes were shot down. " On the Riga-Dvinsk front a German reconnoitring detachment withdrew before a superior Russian force. "At Germans dislodged the Russians from one advanced position."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16121, 8 January 1916, Page 8
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