CANADIANS AT LENS.
GERMANS CRUSHU^ LIKE FLIES.
TV tt v a vJ^NDON' 16. liie United Press correspo adent says the_enemy is desperately holding out at Lens, where there was heiivv fighting all. day. The Canadians jast night crushed the Germans like hies, and had bloodily repulsed ten counter-attacks by 9 o'clock, when the enemy nroke off the hght. ,
The 4th German Guards Division was practically annihilated as it marched jnto Lens, the only access lo which is by a narrow neck which leads across open country which was swept by British artillery and machine-guns
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17065, 18 August 1917, Page 5
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94CANADIANS AT LENS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17065, 18 August 1917, Page 5
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