THE FRENCH OPERATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14128, 3 July 1916, Page 5

THE FRENCH OPERATIONS.

CAPTURES NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SOMME.

MANY PRISONERS TAKEN

(United Service.)

(Received July 2, 11.30 p.m.)

Paris, July 2

A communique .jstates that northward and southward of the Somme the Franco-British troops developed an offensive on a forty kilometre front. They captured' the first German position along the whole front of attack.'

The French northward of the Somme established themselves in the outskirts of Hardecourt and on the fringe of the village of Curlu, where fighting continues.

Southward of the Somme the villages of Dampierre, Becquincourt, Busius and Fay are in our hands.

The French alone captured upwards of 3500 prisoners unwounded.

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