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ENEMY GAIN FOOTING IN ADVANCED ELEMENT OF LINE. GERMANS AGAIN VIOLENTLY RO.M HARDING RHEIMS. (Australian and New Zealand and Reuter.) Received June IS, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, June 18. A French communique reports that, following Saturday night's bombardment in the Hurtebise sector, the enemy attacked and succeeded in entering a salient in our positions, hut was driven back after a brisk fight, being only able to maintain himself in a small element of our advanced line. Artillery fire continued all day long here, north of Cerny and north of Rraye-en-Laonnore. The enemy has violently bombarded Rheims for the past few days, 1200 hundred shells falling in the town to-day, causing many' crrilian casualties.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13512, 19 June 1917, Page 5
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