S IR JOHN FRENCH’S REPORT
EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG POSITION TAKEN. LONDON, September 29. Sir John French reports: “Severe fighting continues round Lens, and also to the northward. We hold all the ground north of Hill 70, which the enemy retook on Sunday. We made further progress south of Loos and cap* tilled another gun, bringing the total to 24. Several more between us and the enemy have been abandoned. The prisoners exceed 3000. Forty machine guns were captured, and many more destroyed. The lines captured were exceptionally strong, consisting of a double front line, including two large works, named the Hohenzoilern and Kaiser Wilhelm redoubts, which were a network of trenches and bomb=proof shelters hundreds of yards in extent. The second line ran just west of Loos. We are now closely engaged on the third line. “ Aeroplanes bombed the railway near Bapaume, wrecking a train and damaging the railway near AcheitdeGrand.’’
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 25
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