Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954), Thursday 31 August 1916, page 4


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 farm. The machine-guns wrre spitting from various comers, and the whole region was so utterly wrecked that 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 managed to hold on to much the greater part of what they 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 ThiepvaL