GREAT BRITISH ATTACK.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14140, 17 July 1916, Page 5

GREAT BRITISH ATTACK.

ADVANCE ON A FOUR-MILE FRONT

ENEMY'S SECOND LINES

ENTERED

LONGUEVAL AND BAZENTIN-LE-

GRAND CAPTURED

TRONES' WOOD CLEARED

BRITLSH LOSSES SMALL

FIGHTING AT OVILLERS

TROOPS IN HIGH SPIRITS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London. July 14. Sir Douglas Haig reports that the British advanced at dawn and broke into the enemy positions on a four-mile front. Press despatches report that Longueval and Bazentin-le-Grand were captured and Trones Wood cleared. An important afternoon despatch from the war correspondents at Headquarters state that later reports tend to confirm the first accounts of the success of the British attack, which carried the second German line with small losses. Prisoners are surrendering freely. They include a regimental commander and his staff. By nine in the n-orning we stormed and captured Bazentin^le-Petit. , Fighting is also proceeding around Ovillers. We have taken practically the whole village. Several German con nter-attacks against the new positions were successfully repulsed. We are now consolidating our gains. The troops are in high spirits over the successes. \ Fighting is proceeding at Debille i Wood, one and a half miles north-east of Longueval. I