FURTHER FRANCO-BRITISH PROGRESS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17066, 20 August 1917, Page 5

FURTHER FRANCO-BRITISH PROGRESS.

Received 10,45 p.m., Aug. 19. LONDON, Aug. 18. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We repulsed another counter-attack against tha recently captured positions northwest of Lens. There has been considerable hostile artillery fire in this neighbourhood, also north-east of Ypres. A French communique records progress north of the Bixschoote- Langemarck road.

French communique.—Tn Belgium the Germans have made no fresh attempt. Our troops are organising Fthe captured ground north-east of Bixschoote from Driegrachten to the river Broenveek Islets, where tLa enemy are resisting.

We have now prisoner ed 400 and captured fifteen guns and numerous machine-guns.

Cannonade has been rather lively at different points on the Aisne front, particularly in the district of the plateau before Craonne.

250, shells were thrown into Rheims.

On the right, of the Meuse an artillery duel continues violently in the Courteres Wood-Bezonvaux sector. Special guns brought down two enemy oeroplanes.