WESTERN CAMPAIGN
NO CHANGE ON BRITISH FRONT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter. LONDON, August 7. Sir Douglas Haig states that there is nothing to report. GERMANS BALKED AT THE MEUSE. A French communique states: There is a lively artillery struggle in Belgium, particularly at. BLxschoote and north of the Aisnc and on the oune front. Tliis morning after a lively bombardment, tho Germans attempted an attack betwom Avocourt Wood and Hill 301. A' violent well directed fire forced our assailants to return immediately to their own trenches, suffering appreciable losses. GERMAN REPORT. Admiralty—Per Wireless Press. A German official message states:— The enemy bombarded Hulluch on tho Scarpe. We successfully raided northward of the. Laon-Soissons road, and near Berry-au-Bac. KAISER VISITING TROOPS. AMSTERDAM, August 7. The Kaiser is visiting the west front.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16308, 9 August 1917, Page 9
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133WESTERN CAMPAIGN Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16308, 9 August 1917, Page 9
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