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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 July 1915, Page 3

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Turks on Defensive—Alarmed at Allied Advance —French Success in Argonne

Mr Ashmead Bartlett states that the Turks suffered enormous losses by their attack on June 28. Since then their artillery has been more active, fresh supplies of ammunition having apparently come to hand. Four new lines of Turkish trenches of great strength have been constructed i^: front pf the allied left line

i^ r l ?*° rt from Athens states tlaMne allies have occupied two hjls covering Krithia. Advices from other sources confirm the news of a successful attack on Turkish positions.

A Paris newspaper states that the Germans have constructed a dry dock in the Bosphorus, north of Constantinople, to assemble submarine parts received via Bulgaria.

The attempted offensive by the Germans in the Argonne has been followed by a successful French counter-stroke.

The cannonade at Arras continues, the cathedral portion of the town suffered severely.

French airmen continue to make successful raids within the German lines. A squaclron of 20 aeroplanes bombarded a German military junction between Douia and Lille, effecting great destruction.

The Russians report German attacks on several parts of the front in North Poland. In the region of Prasnysz the Russians retired to their second line before considerable forces of the enemy. Elsewhere the Germans gained a footing in Russian trenches, but were subsequently ejected. The Russians report the capture of over 22,000 prisoners in the Lublin region.