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Show PRUSSIAN GUARDS FIGHT WITH NEW BRITISH UNITS LONDON, July S, 1:39 a. m. British correspondents fit the press camp. British Brit-ish army in France, send the following account of Friday's offensive: Hard fighting started today as soon as dawn broke and is still continuing. Some of our troops made a brilliant attack on Contalmalson and succeeded succeed-ed in capturing about 500 prisoners. The enemy counter-at talked with five battalions of the Third Prussian guards division, who suffered great losses. Some of these men, who fell into our hands, commented on the accuracy and Intensity of our artillery fire. In a separate attack we obtained a footing in Mametz wood. On the left of this attack our troops made an advance ad-vance In the neighborhood of Ovillers and La Boisselle and much improved our positions. On the northern part of our front the enemy heavily bombarded bom-barded some trenches held by Canadians, Ca-nadians, and their guns were also active ac-tive about I..OOS. |