Saturday 19th
August 1916 From our Correspondent in the
Field
Overnight we
heard rumours that the successes around Guillemont yesterday had been repulsed.
Accordingly, overnight, a special reconnaissance was undertaken which found
that, so far from a British repulse, the Germans had fallen back in a line from
roughly Falfemont Farm north-west to Wedge Wood, both of which lie south-east
of Guillemont. Lonely Trench, which gave so much trouble yesterday, had also
been abandoned. Thus today our troops have occupied Lonely Trench and dug in on
the eastern side of the Guillemont Road, gaining touch with the French who were
also able to reoccupy the ground they had lost. This encouraging event has
fuelled fresh optimism that an attack might finally succeed in capturing
Guillemont.
Today 1st
Australian Division, near the German fortress of Mouquet Farm and south-east of
the road to Bapaume, suffered a heavy German counter-attack on the positions
they managed to take yesterday. They seem to have weathered them.
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