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THE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.
BRIEF ENEMY SUCCESS,
Taxpos. August 2
2,37 p.ni Fieki-Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig reports: --
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE. FIRST DAY'S ATTACK.
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GERMAN LOSSES MUST BE COLOSSAL. **
LisDos, August" Reuters Correspondent at French. Hondquarters in Flanders, telegraphes ing on July 31, states that so ter- After 48 hours of inesssing "ear the was our artillery fire that the the eden yesterday afterncon, Germans abaraloned their first and succeeded, at great rost in gaining second lines on the Yser Canal on a foothold in our miranevil positions July 29, and allowed the French near the pres-Roulers railway,
Our counter-attack drove hint froin all points, completely restab Esling out former me.
We successfully carried out a mid to the south-east of Hargit.
THE FRENCH FRONT.
Losnes, August 2
to
cupy then. The enemy's hbsequent attempt to recover the prositions was an utter failure.
"Ppalling artillery
The ground where the French are consolidating is very flat and so wet that it is met dificult to entrench The great shell craters fill with water under the eyes of the observer.
The most notable feature of the Paide was the
preparation, in accordance with General Pétain's cherished idea, that the Allied gunfire must be five times Our troops continue to organise the
positions won to the north fater than that of the Germans,
Telegraphing again on August 17 the Aisual
th Correspondent says that the There was rectiproval_attillery battle remains predominently of un nctivity on the Crone-Furtebise
artillery chanieter," sector. The Gurmans attacked to
A French commumipité "reports :- There has been persistent rain on the Belgian Front.
the west of Cerny but were repulsed. We, took 30 prisoners, fa
There has been, an artillery duel on the right of the Meuse
BAD WEATHER CONTINUES.
- Losvos, August 2.
The upless. Gernuti infantry must ive been practivully unprotected, Lus dugouts or even deep trencheż were impossible in the water-logged country; hence numerous dead were fund..
Their losses must be colossal. Oi preponderance of gun power
A French communiqué reportsembles us to keep up a steady. The bad weather continues barrage on the German rear, through Belgiumt.
which reinforcements and reliefs There was great artillers activity have to come before an attack can last night at Brun-en-Luonnois and be organised.
to the west of Craonnie.
There was 13 violent artillery struggle on the left bank of the Meuse
The Germans attacker gain on the Avocours Wool sector, but without result.
LATER.
The enemy artillery has been con centrating on certain sectors.
The wretched weather prevents the winnen from directing counter- battery work to
any extent and it is very hard to get definite news as t what is happening in the chiinder. pus, erinson-tinted haze which is "A French communique states-shrouding the battlefront.
In Belgium our artillery work is
The fact bus guin been illustrates dominating the Gerroan artillery that whatever side dominates in gun whose activity is greater east and power guts the fullest value of the north of Bixchcote and prevented infantry. For example, on Tuesday wy atterupted attack.
We stopped two enemy attacks east of Cerny.
There has been reciprocal artillery work east of the Meuse.
TEN DAYS AERIAL WORK.
Between July 21 and Jely 31 we brought down 20 aeroplanes and two halloons and caused 21. aeroplanes to descend.
our troops had comparatively little fighting and it was when the lay of the ground rendered effective artil Lary support difficult or impossible, that the resistance was really stub born.
ANNIVERSARY MESSAGES.
PARIS, August Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in
· Ten flying squadrons threw 41,000 a message to General Petain, on the kilograms of projectiles over the occasion of the third anniversary of the..
and elsewhere, besides factories, admiration of the French Army's mag stations at Floulers, Metz, Thionville war, expresses the Army's profoutel
cantonments, bivouace, and muni- nificent courage. The bools of frietul. tion depots, causing comidemhle ship have been tightened by the cortainty of final victory and triumph of damage.
a jost cause."
GERMAN REPORT.
“REPULSED THE ENEMY EVERYWHERE."
LONDON, August 2.
General Fetsin replied The su cesses which have been obtained under your High Command, by the British- and French Armies, gloriously testify to the strength, of the links which units the Armies, until the decision is secured"
The German c official report says We repulsed the enemy in Flanders overywhere in heary fighting, frequent ly forwarding our battle lines by coun- ter-attacks.
u. We took leverni hundred fa
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The prisoners captured yesterday now number 750,
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