THE BATTLE FRONT.
The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, Sept. 30, 1.40 a.m. Fighting continues on the heights be- • tween Souchez and Vimy. We maintain \ all the new/positions captured. ■ In Champagne there are violent com--1 bats before the positions whore the enemy has fallen back, also for the re--1 duction of the salient north of Mesnil, where some enemy unite hold ground. ' We have progresed on the . slopes of I La Butte de Tohure and north of Massiges. • ! ■ The High Commissioner reports: — » LONDON, Sept. 30 rs.io p.m. > .la Artoiß there has been ' a violent bombardment, of the French new positions. : _ ' • In Champagne the French took several points of the German second line of trenches west ot La Butte de Tohure 1 and to the west of the farm at Navarrin. ]- i C!«. Stain tTopps resolutely advanced further, i but were unable to maintain themselves, owing tb the German cur- . tain of artillery 1 fire and flanking fire. Despite atmospheric conditions aircraft bombed five village stations of German communications.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13803, 1 October 1915, Page 3
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167THE BATTLE FRONT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13803, 1 October 1915, Page 3
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