Second Edition. In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 77, 4 July 1916, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West.

IS REPORT, ONTINUE9. >pyright, Austra,©.^^ciati,on.,;;,;, 9i|.afternoon reAtt " aotly contested, ie positions won. Valley; and arly severe. On •rietrated the viland« the fighting jag about CuiU 5 success. One rnmg secured a > _and priSondrl pissed ations. ■• J ;of Gerat faflfci repassed.; [|9^ : i?jerev4.h#d: in lines, and as TS-and machines, iT'^|drk^ : .wiMiont; irere many aerial night down six| ,: otfjers- foeifft urs are missing. importance. B PROCEEDAT FRlat the British U.jrJie..>».&ghting se oh the whole sre has been no, ; ahove the river! onibarded is proceeding at ushed oijf |pos|; art to *s}gheij fcion here is prb,hs continue ; _to ian } ie prisoitflf fvM The POMOEHTB. ATIVEB. . ~ »ay». : l sticftHy f ,|^ffi|T" s ':t% le' U#eia*s| yr reason t 0,... be,. itest hopes, but *to '^l^iil^^: 1 n I : .!bi**:|lMt))i&f t rom:. S^e^i^fwds: ¥e eveis* ttype y of 1 and'Bed €ftb*» arrahgement to le toll ofciufferle f#&nt'fram? a <t, /a'feimes'pondr, sky ablaze. js. in the rear rioups watched semb&d sutftniep > experienced the un declares? i tba'tc o su»|>asf.the all shells'.* } " ■ ';-'■ / battle brbiay.in fpr .Sellers, watchijlfcf^id': -.' 'Pity tlii?

I-.lot!;" , ' I Great clouds of thick. ~black smoke I carried a light breeze I which drifted to the German trenches. I The accuracy of I able. The extreme usefulness of the ■ new British trench mortars was manilijfefeted. They fired twenjy*five-rounds ■ per minute, and are trustworthy for ■&BBtruction of .entanglements and obKffl/'StliUleSV " : . "*', " .r. ii font' " *■* I The quiescende of, Was I becoming remarkable, and it was surI raised they were lying low. OccaI sicnally they were scattered by jshrapInel from our and they did not I resent the immense flights of "our I aeroplanes. I ' • weie, ilot permitted I to witness the British' charge. , New sI papers are reliably informed that the I men leaped to the trenches with a I: vigor; and of the I best traditions. They : ''w s ere fed up I with the trenches welcomed a I fiaht at close .Germans

I. ot-er/' but the British jSbfoC&ei-a' €tov countered difficult!©* deeper • trenches. Only.'L.their~- indomitable pluck and perseverance enabled them to triumph over obx I Counter-attacks KSffl : , .everywhere I We pushed through Thiepval early on I dug-uu.B, suddenly"'emerged from; the I and ensued