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From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 19 June 1915:

In the British section of the western theatre of war our troops have taken the offensive to the west of La Bassée and to the east of Ypres. In the La Bassée district on Tuesday evening they won several trenches, but these trenches were retaken that night by strong counter-attacks of the enemy. Near Hooge, however, two miles east of Ypres, we gained a considerable piece of ground and have held it. The Germans allege that at La Bassée four English divisions, or nearly seventy thousand troops, took part in the advance, and suffered very heavy losses. but “Credat Judeas Apella” say we. Heavy losses no doubt there have been, but we shall want much better evidence in regard to these seventy thousand troops. People who are “jumpy” are always attacked by “thousands upon thousands of men.”


In the Dardanelles we are not only holding our own, but the activity of the German submarines appears to have abated.

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