Sunday 13th
August 1916 From our Correspondent in the
Field
There have been
no French attacks between Maurepas and Guillemont today and so no units from
our army have advanced either(1). So far August has seen considerably less
activity than July and all of it seems to have been concentrated into small
areas rather than the sweeping attacks which characterised 1st and 15th July.
It is not clear to we “newspapermen”whether this is a well-thought-out strategy
by High Command or local responses made by officers on the ground.
The fighting
continues at Pozières. 12th (Eastern) Division, supporting the Australians, has
been involved in hand-to-hand fighting with the enemy west of the village and south-west near the fortress village of Ovillers, which fell a month ago on 14th July.
(1) In the
event the French were receiving German counter-attacks following French
successes on the previous day and so no advance could be made.
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