DESPERATE ALL-NIGHT BATTLE.
LOST GROUND RECOVERED. Received 5-5 p.m., June 25. PARIS. June 24. A communique says: We repulsed a hand grenade attack on Hill 304. There was a desperate all-night battle on the western section, of the right bank, and a vigoorus counteroffensive in the region of Hill 321. Hill 320 restored to us a large part of the lost ground. The enemy was driven back to the approaches to the Thiaumont work, which he still occupies. > The struggle was particularly violent in the noighbourhod of Fleury. We recovered in the vicinity of Fumin and the Chenois Avoods the trench elements lost on the night of the 21st inst Latest information shows tbat upwards of six divisions participated in Friday's offensive on the right bank.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 148, 26 June 1916, Page 5
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