RENEWED BRITISH OFFENSIVE
BATTLE RESUMED ON FOUR -MILE FRONT. A UISTRALIANS AND TERRITORIALS CARRY GERMAN WORKS BY ASSAULT. VIOLENT FIGHTING CONTINUES. The High Commissioner reports ; — LONDON, July 23, 4.5 p.m. On the British front the battle has been resumed to-day along a front ex- ! tending from Pozieres to Guillerhont, and reaching a stags of intense violence. 5 In the neighborhood of Pozieres Terri- • torial and Australian troops, attacking 1 from the south-west and south-east reJ spectively, canned the German outerworks by assault shortly after midnight. Violent fighting is now taking place m the village, where the Germans, with a large number of machine guns, are offering a desperate resistance. On other parts of the front the fighting is equally intense, and no definite ■ progress- can yet be ; reported. At one time this morning we had re- - captured the whole of Longueval, but 3 the enemy once more regained the I northern end of the village. 3 Similarly the outskirts of Guillemont t have already twice changed hands.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14052, 24 July 1916, Page 3
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167RENEWED BRITISH OFFENSIVE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14052, 24 July 1916, Page 3
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