THE GERMAN REPORT.
Received August 17, 5.30 p.m
LONDON, August 16
Wireless German official. —The second great Flanders battle burst forth in an artillery duel, which was most violent on the coast between the Yser and the Deutla
The English attacked on an eighteen kilometres front between Bixschoote and WytschaetA.
The English made an attack between Hulluch and Lens yesterday morning. Four Canadian divisions forced our first position in an effort to deepen the gap on both sides of Loos village. Their gain is small. Eleven fresh attacks collapsed.
We repulsed attacks southward of Hulluch and westward of Lens.
The French fired three thousand shells at St. Quentin and set fire to the cathedral.
French attacks between Cerny and Hurtebise Farm failed. •
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17065, 18 August 1917, Page 5
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