CANADIANS' SPLENDID WORK.
DAY'S OBJECTIVES GAINED IN
FIRST RUSH.
A SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCE.
SEVERAL IMPORTANT POSI-
TIONS SECURED.
LENS A DEATHTRAP FOR
GERMANS.
(United' Service.) Received Augiust 16, 5.20 p.m
LONDON, August 15; The Canadians also stormed positions near Hill 70, carrying everything with irresistible dash, and achieving the day's objectives in the first rush along a 1000 yards' front to a depth of nearly a mile. Ragewood, Cite St. Laurent, Cite St. Emilie, parts of Cite St. Elisabeth, Hugowood and a number of other important positions about Lens passed into British possession. Several hundred prisoners are already reported. Lens will be merely a death trap if the Germans continue to hold it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17064, 17 August 1917, Page 5
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