OFFENSIVE ON 40 KILOMETRE FRONT.
GERMAN FIRST POSITIONS CAPTURED. 3500 PRISONERS CAPTURED. Received r>-. r > p.m., July 2. PARIS, July 2. A communique says: Northward and southward of the Somme the Franc«-British developed an offensive on a forty kilometre front. They captured the first German position along the whole front of attack. The French northward of the Somme established themselves on the outskirts of Hardecourt and . the fringe of the village of Curlu, where lighting continues. Southward, of the Somme, the villages of Dompierre', Becquincourt, Busius, and Fay are in our hands. TheTTench alone prisonered upwards of :]SOO unwounded Germans.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 154, 3 July 1916, Page 5
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100OFFENSIVE ON 40 KILOMETRE FRONT. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 154, 3 July 1916, Page 5
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