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On the Flanders front, the enemy on Thursday week made

a reso- lute attempt to break our lines on his left or southern flank between Givenchy and St. Venant. He used six divisions, but his repeated attacks failed with extremely heavy losses. At Givenchy, the corner- stone of our defences, there was a fierce struggle. The enemy gained some of our advanced posts, but was ejected from them next day by the First Division. On the same day the enemy attacked in force on his right flank south of Kemmel. Here too he failed to gain ground, and was sharply punished by the Allied troops.

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