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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e to thegenerals, the regimental officers or the men, theGerman Commander did not say. While the fighting had been going w\ inDelville Wood the attack on Longueval hadalso been progressing. There, too, the strugglehad been in progress since the middle of themonth, and the Scottish troops, who had hungon in spite of heavy losses from the continuousfire to which they had been exposed, hadbehaved with the greatest gallantry. They hadbeen relieved by others who made some furtherprogress, while English and Scots had combinedto take Waterlot Farm and then seciired a lineback towards Trdnes Wood. But the whole ofLongueval was not yet oiu-s. The Orchard hadbeen won in this days fighting (July 27) ; thenorthern end of the village, howev(*r, still gavea foothold to the Germans at the end of theday, though considerable j)rogress had beeniriud«? towards tin tlesinul goal. South of the Somme the French made some(irogress )o the eust of I^str/es and timre was 414 THt: TlMb:S HlSTUliY OF Till: WAR.
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RUSSIANS IN CHAMPAGNE.Mounting a machine gun on a parapet. a fairly lively fusillade in the outskirts ofSoyecourt The chief event on this side was the enemyseffort to assume the initiative and create adiversion from the Somme fighting by attacksupon the centre of the western front north ofthe Aisne, at Ville-au-Bois, and in Champagnewest of Prosnes. The latter attack was the moreimportant. Delivered on a front about one milewide, it gave the Germans no permanentadvantage. For a time they succeeded inoccupying a few trenches, but a counter-attackdislodged them without great difficulty. The Germans made a small raid on ourtrenches just to the west of the Ypres-Pilkemroad, but were at once counter-attacked anddriven back. We also raided the Germantrenches farther to the south, after a pre-liminary bombardment. Here the enemy viasfiist met outside his own wire and forced toretire with a loss of some 30 killed. Ourtroops, following up the retreating Germans,then pushed through into their t

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