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GREAT BATTLES.

THE GREAT ITALIAN. OFFENSIVE.

LARGE CAPTURES.

THE ANGLO-FRENCH OPERATIONS.

BRITISH PROGRESS AT LENS.

LasDos, Aug. 23. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

Rom, Aug. B reports ---

The enemy raided our posts in the !agighbourhood of Lombartsyde.

The Italian offensive, has forced. We advanced our line to the south- the Austgiars to obtain reinforce-West of Lens and repulsed an attack ments from the Eastern Front. The to the last of Langemarck. by Twelfth Division is composed mainly wachine gun fire. ;öf recent arrival from Galicia.

**The Austrians were preparing to retove six guix hear Selo and our tops carried out a hurricane assault and captured the weapons, aftermine counter-attacks and been repulsesk

Noar Korite the Italians took the Foffensive, capturing an entire regi

pent, Another Brigaly assaulted, with the bayonet, Hill 241 and Hill 317, at least seven times.

Thousands of prisoners have been

A RELENTLESS STRUGLE.

SCOTS AND MIDLANDERS TAKE UP THE TASK OF THE IRISH.

LONDON, Aug 23. Correspondents describe that where

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the southern Irish fought at the battle at Längemarck, and were cut up the Scottish troops attacked, on August 29,` against the sinister forts of Beekhouse, Borry Farm and Vampire Point, guard. The following morning, we pro-ing Bremen redoubt to the south-east creder, to assault, the strong lines of St. Julian. A little to the north before Selo. Despite his determined there are ether forts where the stor Regiments are new assaulting, meeting resistance the enemy abandoned men fought and where the Midland with the same difficulties in the ground which is still a mere bog, over Taska" sinking

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kilometers,

A diemnient found on a captured

smen admits that the Austrias, aeroplanes are outnumbered by three to que..

Prisoners are still-Howing-in.-

18,000 PRISONERS,

STRÁDY PROGRESS OF THE

OFFENSIVE. -

Losbus, Aug. 23. An Italian official message, trans juitted by wireless, states:-

We pirogressed to the north and to -the south on the Julian Frout,

fur troops affer repulsing counter attacks, curried a position to the southeast of Bossofuits.`

Up to yesterday, we had taken 6,090 and 850 officers, pri-

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Our acropliss dropped twelve tons of bombs on | tag enemy,

GERMANS BOMBING

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LONDON, Aug. 23,

The enemy relied mainly upon ma chine guns, skillfully arranged for an enfilade al barrages.

The Midlanlars capturer one block- bouse, taking-17 prisoners, and others penetrated the machine-gunned baringes as far as Hill 35, while on the right. flank, the Scots Sercely assuäited Bremen redoubt which is apparently still holding out

The Nighting split up into inextricabla groups aut no doubt we shall have to pay the price of the most desperate fighting in the war. "

"CANADIANS BREAK SIX GERMAN DIVISIONS. Colonel Hepington, the Times Military Correspondent states that the Canadians have broken six German Divisions at Lens...

ALL GAINS MAINTAINED AND INCREASED.

Loxoox, Aug. 28. Reuter's Correspondent, telegraph- ing today, states that all of yester day's "goins have been maintained, in Flanders, and even added to, despite the violent German artillery activity and counter-attacks.

The advantage of yesterday's suc 1 is how established that the case is greater than the advance of Germans are deliberately selecting a few hundred yards ruggests, for hospitals and clearing stations. There we are now fighting for the high has been a succession of aerial attacks ground dorainating the whole tac- which left alone the military objectives ticul position in northern Belgium.

7.640 FRISONERS TAKEN AT VERDUN.

in the near vichi"y","

There were three inch attacks on August 19. In the first, three women nurses were wounded; in, the second, one doctor was killed and three wounded, and in the third, nine German patients. There is great enemy artillery

in their beds were wounded....

LONDON, Aug 23.

A French communiqué states

Last night similar attacks occured on activity to the north of the Aizne, the Brige Hurtebise the hospital whore the wounded tably on Germans were noisy and panicstriken.

The British were silent and self. Ceontrolled.

sector.

We have taken prisoner, at Vere dun, since August 20, 7,640, includ- ing 180 officers, 060 wounded priz somers, 24 guns of all calibres, over, 200 machine guns and also nine guds have been destroyed.

The communiqué again records

The Correspondent Mr.Beach Thomas describes how a great English surgeon was visiting a hospital, accom panied by American surgeons, when the bombing began. The Lospital echoed with the gutteral German screams. The numerous heavy aerial bombard bospital was plunged in darkness and a ments of railway stations, aviation Hash lamp revealed a horrible scene of a grounds, aerodromes and hiyounes husss of debris in which 300lbs. of bombs and the machine-gunning of convoye had made huge craters, suggesting that behind the enemy lines. the raider" was one of the newest air giants. The first bombatrucka ward full of Germans, mine of whom were hosped in avery attitude of horrible and fantastic

death

The doctora state that in all their experience they have never Fact horrible ccenes

Another ward suffered as severely

OFFICE,

as the German Hard-

A QUIET DAY ON THE FRENCH

MA FRONT.

LONDON,

A French communiqué

generally been mutual artillery activity banks of the Meuse

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