THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

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

THE ANGLO-FRENCH OFFENSIVE.

THE LONCUEYAL FIGHTING.

BRITISH ADVANCE CONTINUED

TO FOUREAUX

ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS,

PARTIAL FOOTING IN DEVILLE

WOOD

GERMAN OFFENSIVE SHREWDLY

CONCEIVED,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, July 22.

Sir Douglas Haig reports that the British advance north of the Bazentin*-. Longueval line was pushed on to the Bois dcs Fourneaux, from which we drove the enemy. During the night the enemy counterAttacked after an intense bombardment with gas shells, and succeeded in effecting an entry north of Deville Wood, but failed to dislodge our troops from the southern half. Elsewhere the situation is unchanged. The "Daily, Mails correspondent in France writes: The German attack on iLongueval was shrewdly conceived, and if successful would have endangered the front where the Franco-British ■ forces meet. The enemy pretend that only a brigade was engaged, but French experts estimate that there were six -divisions on a two and a half mile front. Despite the tremendous odds -and exceptional German fury, the British magnificently withstood the attack.