GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK AT SOYECOURT.

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

GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK AT SOYECOURT.

REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS.

AERIAL ACTIVITY

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Paris, July 21

A communique says the enemy late on Wednesday counter-attacked south of Soyecourt. The battalions .which led the assault were caught by our curtain five and mitrailleuses and fell back in disorder with, very heavy losses.

The night v.iis calm on both sides of the Soiurae.

We repulsed . with the bayonet a strong party of enemy raiders in the Chaulnes region.

Durinp- the last 24 hours an air ~ 1• ■ . ■ , squadron bombarded the stations at !^ nflaris ' Mars-la-Tour, Brieulles, and i J™ctlon Wlt* P^tiles, J . lhe G^T T ! t °5f n t!™ I*ol I Bftccara* ? L^ llcI Jh<f h*vc b u ecn notf for TC^ ls- . Tlie T™"h operations south of LstT. e°* ™*° necessary to protect the riSht Ha^ previous to attacking the j »ct ™3 consten% under ; stl"on S German artulery fire the special oh^c* of the Germans' defence _ __ _"

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being to protect the bridgeheads at Eterpigny and, Brie.

The Germans "between- Estrees and durables and Chaulnes and Roye are the most formidable, the ground having been transformed into veritable labyrinths. •