WESTERN FRONT.
THE NIEPPE FOREST ADVANCE.
NO GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK,
KERXHARDPS FORCES DEFEATED.
Received July 2, 12.40 a.m.
London, July 1. Philip Gibbs writes that there has been no German counter-attack to retake the ground gained east of the 'i-ppc Forest, when we prisonered 42!) : mans and many machine-guns. The German wireless gives a fantastic account, exaggerating our objective and stating: ''We repulsed with great losses outside the village of Vieus Bcrquin." As a matter of fact, the Australians on our left carried out a small enterprise in support of the,main English attack with remarkable success and rapidity, bringing back prisoners and several ma-
;-..ine-guns. There wore only a fe\> raids on Saturday and Sunday. We are still waiting the German offensive. Our armies, with their gaps filled -by young drafts, are now strong in defence. An immense amount of work has h"?n done behind our lines recently.—Press Assoc. Received July 2, 1.55 a.m. London, July 1.
The Morning Post saya the fighting at Xieppe Forest was a defeat for General Bernhardi's troops. The English and Australians attacked the 44th Prussian Reserve Division and the 32nd Saxon Division at 0 in the morning, and thoroughly defeated them.
The Germans pushed their artilleTy within a few hundred yards of the front trenches, so that the crews were unable to either remove the guns or carry away the breech blocks. Bernhardi's tried infantry made no effort to recover the hamlets of Repmettes, Verterue, and Becque, which we stormed.
BRITISH REPULSE ATTACK. NEW POSITIONS BOMBARDED. London, June 30. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We repulsed, after Sharp fighting, an attack on a British post in the neighborhood of Merris. There is considerable hostile artillery fire against our new positions eastward of the Nieppe Forest, also in the Albert sector, northward of the Scarpe and near Festubert. —Aus. NX Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
A STRIKING CEREMONY. FLAG PRESENTED TO CZEOHOSLOVAKS. BY FRENCH PRESIDENT. Paris, July 1, Received July 2, 1.30 a.m. President Poincare, at a striking ceremony, is th» presents ol a great gathering of Ministers and others, presented a flag to the Czecho-Slovaks fishting in I'ranee. The Czecho-Siovak officers, replying, said the flag symbolised their national sovereignty. Tlioy were proud that the Allies recognised their national aspirations.—Press Assoc.
AERIAL REPORT. Received July 2, 12.45 a.m. London, July 1. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Hostile aerial activity on the 29th was not great, but we destroyed nine and brought down eight. Five British are missing. We carried out much important reconnaisance work and dropped 5h tons of bombs in the daytime on railways and on Lille, Courtrai, Comines, and Estaires. There was mutual bombing at night time, but the enemy did practically no damage. Wo dropped IS tons of bombs, of which eight were on the railway stations at Tournai. All the British night-fliers returned,—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
BOMBING SQUADRONS' WORK.
Received July 2, 12.40 a.m. London, July J
Air Ministry official: Bombing squadrons on Saturday night attacked the railway works at Thionville, sidings at Metz Sablons, aerodromes at Fleseaty and Boulay, and other objectives. Mists prevented observation of the results. We dropped many bombs on Sunday on the Hagenau aerodrome, with good resuits. We also destroyed the barracks and station at Landau. We also destroyed three hostile machines over Landau. Two British are missing.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
iFKENOT RAIDS. Received July 1, 7.G0 pm. London, June 30. A French communique, issued on the evening of the 30th, states:—Wc made various raids, notably west of Hangard and south of Antrenches- In local operations south of the Ourcq, we captured, last night, the crest between Nosloy and Passieuvalois, advancing eight hundred metres on a front of three kilometresWe took 275 prisoners.
On the 28th and 29t,k fifteeji enemy aeroplanes were downed, nineteen others ■being put out of action. Lieutenant Fonk downed three machines on the 25th and two on the 27th, making bis official total forty-nine. In raids with various objectives, we dropped fifty-two tons of bombs, including enemy troops preparing for counterattack in the Outry region.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.
SUCCESSFUL DAYLIGHT RAID. Received July 1, 8.30 p.m. London, June 30. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We prisoncred a few in a successful daylight raid eastward of Robcoq.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable . Assoc. and Reuter. Received July 1, 5.30 p.m. London, June 30. Wireless German official: —There has been increased artillerying all (Lav long north of the Lys and south of the Aisne, and it wug revived at nisht-tfcne on the remainder of the front, between the Yser and Marne- We captured prisoners during strong encmv thrusts south oftbe Onreq.—Aus.-IN£. Cable Assoc. ami Ecu* SS
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