BATTLE AT YPRES
BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION London, June 3, 2.5 a.m. The High Commissioner reports: British Official.—There was sharp fighting on Friday in Tpres sal'ent, on a front of three thousand yards. Following artillery activity on Thursday, the Germans heran an intense, sustained artillery fire, followed by infantry attacks, penetrating our front at several points, but were re-. • pulsed elsewhere. On 'Thursday night, . after a combined artillery bombardment, 1 our infantry penetrated the German : trenches, but subsequently withdrew. The German statement that strong English forces were repulsed in this vicinity is untrue.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2788, 5 June 1916, Page 6
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93BATTLE AT YPRES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2788, 5 June 1916, Page 6
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