A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14142, 19 July 1916, Page 5

A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Received July 18, 8.30 p.m.) London, July 17 A German communique says:—

"The English at many points between the sea and the Ancre increased their fire to great violence. The artillery activity on the Somme is very considerable on both sides. Enemy local attacks resulted1, in which the English penetrated Ovillors Wood. There was lively fighting south of Biaches, but otherwise the attacks failed before our curtain fire.

"Extensive French attacks commenced on the Isth east of the Meuse and continued until this morning. The* enemy achieved no success in the san-

quinary struggle,"