WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. PSEMT DRTVEJJ OCT OF BRITISH TRENCHES. London, July 2. Doo§tas Haig reports: We sucM«dly raided eastward of Hargicourt. ndders readied our trenches •Utward of Loos, but were driven out. ACTIVE ARTILLERYING. FREXGH RECAPTURE TRENCHES. and NJZ. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received July 3, 8.30 p.m. London, July 2. A French communique states: There kas been most, active reciprocal artiHeryfag in the Cerny-Ailles sector. We counter-attacked both rides of Ailles and recaptured the trenches they captured yesterday, inflicting heavy A QEKMAN report. London, July 2. A wireless German official report sava: jin English attack near Lens failed. A wireless German official message Wys: The French failed to recapture ground lost on the Chsmin-des-Dames ud OB the west bank of the Meuse. We repubad three trench attacks on our new trenches southward of Sovellefarm, and stormed the lines further eastward fts far as the Ailles-Paissy road. INACJOORACY OF GERMAN CASUALTY LISTS. London July 2. The Dally Chronicle correspondent at Amsterdam states that the estimates of ' Vierman casualties appearing in British newspapers are necessarily founded on the German lists. These are so inaccurate that recently efforts v ere made in tts Reichstag to elicit the truth about them and fresh figures were given under the teal of secrecy, showing that over two million Germans had been killed and died of wounds or sickness. Those permanently disabled number upwards of three million. The above statistics do not include tiw recant heavy fighting along the Hingedbtog Una.