WESTERN CAMPAIGN
SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAID. Australian and N.Z. Cable Absd. and Reuter. LONDON, July 8. We successfully raided south-east of Hngnicourt and north of Ypres. We drove off an attempted raid eastward of Loos. ON THE FRENCH FRONT. High Commissioner's Cable. A French official report states.—Between the Aisne and Laffaux the Germans. following a. very intense bombardment. attacked four separated sections with' their maximum strength. Our desperate resistance frustrated them, the enemy losing heavily and our I positions being maintained. j
CONFIDENCE IN FRENCH GOVERNMENT. , PARIS, July 8. The Chamber concluded a several dn.ys' secret debate on the conrluc'D of operations. It adopted a vote rif confidence by 275 to 23 after a stirrmg appeal by tlie War Minister, M. Painleve.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16283, 10 July 1917, Page 8
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121WESTERN CAMPAIGN Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16283, 10 July 1917, Page 8
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