GERMAN FIRST LINE CARRIED.
RUMANIAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING. ÜBiKMS EXECUTIONS DAILY IN BELGIUM. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG REPORTS THAT THE BRITISH YESTERDAY ATTACKED ON A WIDE FRONT IN FLANDERS FROM THE NORTH-WESTERN OUTSKIRTS OF LENS TO THE T3OIS HUGO, NORTH-EAST OF LOOS, AND CARRIED THE ENEMY'S FIRST LINES AT ALL POINTS. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS IS STILL BEING MADE. A GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK WAS COMPLETELY CRUSHED. A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE REPORTS THAT A BIG GUN DUEL IS RAGING ALONG THE BELGIAN FRONT AND ON BOTH BANKS OF THE MEUSE. THE RUMANIAN COUNTER -OFFENSIVE IS DEVELOPING AND SUCCESSES ARE REPORTED. THE RUSSIANS AND RUMANIANS REPULSED ATTACKS AT TWO POINTS. THE GERMANS DAILY CONTINUE THEIR SAVAGE EXE- ' CUTIONS IN BELGIUM. A PARTICULARLY BARBAROUS DEED JS REPORTED IN TO-DAY'S MESSAGES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12087, 16 August 1917, Page 5
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