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THE FIGHT AT MOQL'ET FARM.
{By Captain Bean, Commonwealth Repratenta ttve. )
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. August «.
There waa heavy fighting again this
Blderablp advance to potnta on both] sides of the ffittn. The machine-guns ? wrre spitting from various comers, and the whole region was so utterly wrecked tliat the trenches were often The Germans counter-attached again and again during the day. but most of the attacks were stopped by our artillery. . The Victorians tnantged to bold on to much the greater part of what the)* I Hie evening, the skyline In that direc tion Is reeking irjih shell dust and smoUe. The air 1* full or the dutlant crash of shell. The Germans are dearly, making fresh counter-attack*, cathtr] against the new Australian position or atjslnet that taken by the British In the recent advance near TfalepvaL