GERMAN THRUST ON BELGIAN COAST.
BRITISH LINES BATTERED AND RUSHED. LOST GROUND REGAINED IN COUNTER-ATTACK. High Commissioner’s Cable. (Received July 12, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 11 (1.30 p.m.). Sir Douglas Haig reports:— Yesterday evening, after twenty-four hours’ intense bombardment on the Nieuport front, the enemy, having demolished our lines of defence, and destroyed the Yser bridge and isolated the sector, penetrated our lines for 600 yards on a 1400-yard front, reaching the right bank of the Yser, opposite Lombaertzyde. After gaining temporarily some advanced positions, he was driven back by a counter-attack. HEAVY GUN FIRE HEARD IN LONDON. . NEWSPAPERS INTERESTED IN THE FACT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 12, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. The newspapers give prominence to Sir Douglas Haig’s announcement of a great bombardment on the Belgian coast. The heaviest gun-fire was heard in London throughout Tuesday.’
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 7
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142GERMAN THRUST ON BELGIAN COAST. Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 12 July 1917, Page 7
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