THE WESTERN FRONT.
A FRENCH REPORT. [AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] LONDON, Sept. 9. A French communiquo says the Gormans violently counter-attacked positions captured yesterday in the sector of Fosse’s and Couriero’s Woods, but were repulsed with heavy losses. Scouts pushed around Fosse’s, and estimated that over a thousand enemy corpses lay before our lines. There was great reciprocal artillerying on the left bank of the Meuse. There was no infantry actions.
GERMANS LOOSES AT LENS. TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] PARIS September 8. “Le Matin” states that the German losses in defending Lens havo already re&ched 10,000 or a quarter of the number .engaged. Moreover, since August 23rd. thirty-five divisions have beien engaged between Meeken and Hollebekc where the losses were averaged 3,500 each. Eight divisions there have remained in the fighting line nineteen have been withdrawn after being severely mauled, and eight others suffering, from trenoh feet havo been transferred to quieter sectors. The Germans have called up the 1920 elass and youths of seventeen are already enlisted in certain districts in eastern Prussia, Hesse,.and Westphalia
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1917, Page 2
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