BRITISH FRONT,
ENEMY ATTACK AT MONCHY. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association and Router. LONDON, July 25. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Following a. heavy bombardment east Monchy le Preux, the enemy, using flammenwerfer, drovo in a few advanced posts on a front of 250 yards. We stopped raiders north of Bullecourt and raided enemy trenches at a number of. points north of Ypres. The weather is restricting aerial operations. BOMBARDING THE COAST. AMSTERDAM, July 26. The English have bombarded Bruges and Zcebrugge on the past two nights, explosions and fires resulting. Zecbrugge was much damaged. A submarine shed, probably with a submarine in it, was blmvn up. A naval srpadron bombarded the Belgian coast oii the nights of July 22-23, along the Zeebrugge-Ostend line.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12070, 27 July 1917, Page 2
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