FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT.
Press Association— Copyright I ,' Australian and N.Z. Gable Association,. (Received Tans, July 11.
A communiQjie stftte&tt Ther. Somme is calm. Thelpmonei'S for the last two days exceed 1300. There is great artillery- activity at Avocourt and Chattaucourfc, with ie doubled intensity at Fleury and east of Chenois. The Germans attacked over the whole front east,, of - Tumm Wood and Chenois Wood, and entered an advancp,d;>renchrybnt a counterattack drove them out. The Germans in Lorraine attacked a salient east of Reilly, and penetrated the first line on a front of two hundred metres. Taking advantage of foilr mine , explosions;, the enemy attempted to seize the trenches northeast of Veho, but our rifle fire caused him to fall back, leaving dead and wounded, and we .occupied-the craters In the Vosges, we penetrated and occupied the first '4i«e-vandvßnpp.omng trenches, and north of Fontenielle cleared out the enemy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 84, 12 July 1916, Page 6
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147FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 84, 12 July 1916, Page 6
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