Second Edition In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 79, 6 July 1916, Page 6

Second Edition In the West.

HAIC STILL PROGRESSES./ Press Association—Copyright,' AustraHan and N:Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, July 5. General Haig rtftffc that the hand-to-hand fighting jbsb bombing continues between Ancre and the Sommej. * arid that additional German prisoners have been taken, j-fj .• ~, ; THE GERMAN VERSION. WIRELESS fjJjß' HOME CONSUMPTION. Presß Austral lian and if .Z. Cable Association. . (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, July 5. A German wireless states that violent fighting continues on both banks df the river Somme, but that the ehe* my has nowhere gained any serious advantage. THE BATTLE. WHAT SAYS. VERDUN OVERBHADO W ED. ' Press Asfo^tldh—CppyrighV-Austra-lian and N.Z. « (Received 1.55 p.m.) New York, July 5. The newspaper "Wotfs.'.,, publishes * a Von Wiegand despatch from Berlin, stating that; a tes*ble artillery duel is proceeding on'all the British and French'fronts. The attacks of the new offensive exceed anything ever yet peen, ; and'are'greater than _the German artillery concentration at Verdun, where capture of Hill 304'the. GerrnaS 'used thirty-seven train loads of ammunition, of forty cars 3fefe. " ■ .•■ -