GERMAN LIES EXPOSED.
Received August 19, 5.5 p.m
LONDON, August 18
The Press Bureau reports: Today's German official report is a series of misstatements. It is untrue that we attacked between the Ypres-Menin road and the Lys river, the former toeing our right flank. The enemy did not attempt to recover Langemarck. A British staff officer from Langemarck at six o'clock in the evening reported: We hold Langemarck, also a considerable length of the German position 800 yards to the northward." The communique's reference to Foelcapelle is obviously intended to convey the impression that the British failed to reach an imaginary distant objective. It is sufficient to state that the British gained all their objectives northward of Lens on Wednesday and northward of St. Julien on Thursday. The statement that four Canadian divisions attacked on Wednesday is an exaggeration.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17066, 20 August 1917, Page 5
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