BRITISH POSITIONS ON THE SOMME RE-ESTABLISHED.
COUNTER-ATTACK NULLIFIES GERMAN GAINS. minor ENEMY ACTIVITY kept under CONTROL. Australian and N.Z. and Renter. LONDON, Aug. 7. Sir Douglas Haig reports: English troops counter-attaoked this morning ,in the sector south-west of Morlancourt, where the enemy attacked last night, and regained all the more important positions we lost yesterday. We secured all our objectives and took prisoner a number of patrols. We advanced our line a short distance astride the Clarence River, south of the Lys, and successfully rushed a post north of Vieux Berquin, south-west of Ypres. Hostile artillery is active east of Robecq and in the Merville and Dickebusch sectors of the same salient. We repulsed, an attempt to capture a post northeast of Merris. Active hostile gas shelling is proceeding north of " Villers Bretonneux, south of the Somme. The enemy's artillery is also active at Bucquoy, north of Albert, and north of Bethune.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16924, 9 August 1918, Page 5
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