GERMAN REPORT.
rADMIRALTY —PER WIRELESS PRESB.] LONDON Augusts.
German ' official: Southward of Langemark the enemy attacked using tanks enveloped in an artificial fog. After the initial preparation the enemy was everywhere repulsed. There is very intense artillery activity at La Basßee Canal, Lens, and southward of the scarpe. We brought down inineteen aeroplanes. < GERMAN REPORT. OF Alii FRONTS. TAUSTRALIAN & if.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION ■ & REUTER.] (Received This Dav at. 12.25. p.m.) LONDON August 20. The German wireless continued after the failure of the English attacks southward of Langemark, the firing was less intense. We repeatedly repulsed English detachments in Artois. Strong French attacks opened early in the morning on hoth hanks of the Meuse, on a front of twentythree kilometres after an all night artillery duel of the greatest intensity . We downed sixteen aeroplanes ana four balloons.
Auistro-Germans drove back stubbornly resisting Roumanians, on both sides "of Gituz Valley prisonering fifteen hundred. There were stubborn struggles on the west hank of the Sereth. We prisonered twenty-two hundred. We repulsed strong Russian attacks southward of the confluence of Rimn«o. x
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1917, Page 3
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