ENEMY'S THIRD LINE SERIOUSLY THREATENED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14145, 24 July 1916, Page 5

ENEMY'S THIRD LINE SERIOUSLY THREATENED.

FOUREAUX WOOD A COMMAND-

ING POSITION

SUCCESS OF THE FRENCH

ATTACK

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

London, July 21

Sir Douglas ITaig's report shows that the British are now in a position to seriously threaten the German third line at Foureanx Wood, the highest ground in the sector. The ridge commands the German positions beyond, where the country is less broken and less wooded.

The latest accounts show that the French attacks yesterday were oxtraordinarily successful. .Picked troops were chosen to attack the German positions from Hardecourt Height to the river, opposite Biaehes.

The attackers left the trenches at 'dawn, and by nine 1- o'clock had completed their task, which the Staff Uaß expected to occiipy the entire day.

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The German counter-attack left the French masters of all the captured positions.