ALSO GUNS AND MUNITIONS
RSE PROGRESS BY THE FRENCH.
ADVANCE ON FIVE MILES FRONT
PARIS, July 21
A communique says: North of the Somme we consolidated the positions we won this morning. South of the
Somme we extended our attacking front, and in the course of tbo afteroon captured the whole of the Germans’ first position from Estrees to Verniandovillers Hill. During the fighting to-day we captured 2900 prisoners, three guns, thirty machine-guns and much material.
We made continued progress in bombing the crest of Thiaumont. work.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 22 July 1916, Page 5
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87ALSO GUNS AND MUNITIONS Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 22 July 1916, Page 5
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