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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from th to 12th August, 1916, both days inclusive:

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THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE. that dreadful brown open space. Some MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA

THE FRICOURT ATTACK

OUR NEW ARMIES ACTION.

of the dots ceased to keep up with the others; but the line as a whole went on, bonding a little, as pointe geeming to break, but always' joining again and always going on till, even as one watch. ed, the loft and of the line disappeared in the shadows of The Poodles and, almostly simultaneously, the middle and white scar on the slope which marked right of the line reached the end of the Failway Alloy and into it, behind the without a check. white parapets, we saw our man pouring

Pura Car France, July 3. The third day of the gross bettle has been a day of sure and steady program, We sat ourselves certain definite obje. tives, and we schiered them' a}}, "

We have taken La Boiselle. We have pushed our success as Fricourt and Mametz by reducing in succession several bombing Wa.could see their arms swing A soon as they were in they started strong points-in woods, trenches, they threw the bombs, and the air redenbtson the high ground beyond more becamy" thick with smoke and the thone placer. We repulsed a very age dust of the struggle that was going on out counter-attack on Montauban, in which of sight below, But it was very short. we believe that & German Division was Almost before the last of our men were practically balbiated. The number of to the tranch at one and other figures our prisoners now amounts to about 5,000, and with them we have, I hear looked darker than our man, and they

came pouring out the 3thor. taken field guns, machine-guns, ou came running, straight down the slope tain guns, and a number of automatic towards. Marnetz; and as they care they chieb, and all had their hunda shove their beads.

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SCENE OF THE DAY'S FIGHTIN (.. First let me speak of what I saw my

at a point overlooking the critical area self. The great part of the day I speat

within our lines, a long gentle slope leads of Mametz and Fricours. From Bray

There was an tonishing number of

that thin line which had pushed so them, more than there was of our men în

others came, more slowly, under guard, gallantly up the hill.

And then yet

up to a platean, perhaps a mile across, from the trees of The Poodles. In all we

their trade cards for £1, or larger advera level plain gay with red poppies, corn-got 700 prisoners from those two spots. tisements from £3.

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The farther edge of the plateau alopes steeply down, seamed with trenches, to beyond. In both those places mora MANILA Megers Macoudray & where, over a little level bottem land, the prisoners were taken, and the whole beg village of Mametz lies at your feet. The of the afternoon Is that one area ESGAPORE: Messrs Borneo. Co. village is now but a ragged pile of grey amounted to 100. But whatchiedy ruins of what once were hoses, with impressed one su one. watched was tast naked tree trunks "atanding up like ragged. It was all curiously unreal and like some black telegraph poles. Immediately to scene on the cinematograph which had the left les Fricourt Wood; the narrow been carefully rehearsed before being point of It jutting out just beyond the photographed northern edge of the village of Wametz. OBTAINABLE at the OR HALL Both Fricoart Wood and the village have

Office, 6 Wyndham Street, Hong been ours since yesterday. kong:-

was really a very gallant and thrilling O Above the village and to the right of performance by British troops, a notable HISTORY OF. UNION CHURCH the end of the wood you see a bare slope and anccessful insident in a gigantie

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.50 which once was green, but is now on enturies in history. It ought to be told battle, which will be described for utter wilderness of brown and pounded with many glorifying adjectives; but I earthDiagonally scross this runs a .30

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VIEW OF THE ATTACK!.

I know that the foregoing is not the

orthodox way in which to describe what

white line of trench, known Railway that you may have a picture of it. And am trying to describe just what I saw Alley, Beyond Railway Alley a small crescent shaped spinncy has the name of it all passed in plain view in the brilliant Shelter, Wood. A tiny patch of wood to sapahine of a perfect summer day. the right of it is Railway Copse: Į Of course, to complete the picture you another to the left, no more than a small must have the setting. The air fairly elump of trees, is rather ridiculously

abdble to the noise of our guns, firing named The Foodies, from staricled raro behind us and around us and from semblants of the outline of the trece to every direction. The shells acrenmed e sort of animal. All these places and hurtled-saying whims whicra," an wers outil this afternoon full of Germans, they went over our heads. High above und I saw them cleared out.

us seroplanes the incomparable gallantry of our airmen circled and paraded up We frat got Shelter Wood (the farthest Beyond the field, where all these thing

and down, the thick.nosed battle biplanes. point sway) by pounding till it was went on smoke rose unceasingly, in white almost leaflets with our guns and then pals, and great grey columns, frem where rusting it along the high ground behind the guns around us were dropping their the Germans, who were then left isolated shells to form a barraga ags:nat any in Railway Alley and The Poodles, Machine-guna, bath in the Alley nad in Railway Copae, continued fring in spite of all that the bombardment of guna could do. There was nothing for it but to rush the positions in spite of msoline and rifio gun fire

We saw the brown line of our med swing out from the end of Fricourt Wood, a reguler, anaky Hina, followed by other bits of lines and scattered dots, across

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