The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-12-03
issued: 1916-06-12
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note: 5$> Tha Daily Nawa haa' tha largast elr< oulation of any daily newspaper In Canada in proportion to tha population of Ite hem* town. 1 JIM ■■'•»- Tha only paper in the Interior af Britlah Columbia carrying tha full service of ths Western Associated Praaa over it* own leased wire. VOL. IB No. 49 NEL80N. B. 0., MONDAY MORNING, .TUNE 12. 1916 SOo. PER MONTH HALT li ATTACKS; ACM AT YPRES | Germans Direct Drives on Hill 304 ALL BATTLE FRONTS |-Shell Hurled on Trenches of British For Three. Hours Sunday (By Daily News Leased Wire.) - LONDON, June 11.—Since Saturday I night, when three German infantry attacks against the French trenches on ! Hill 804 and other points in this sector were put down by the French, 1 bombardments alone havo been in pro- j Kress in the Verdun zone. No change in positions have taken [ place hero or at any other points on I the line in Franco and Belgium held iby tho French, British and Belgian troops. The British around Ypres j have again been heavily shelled by the Oermans. Only one infantry attack was | attempted. This the British repulsed. British Statement. The following official statement was | issued at midnight: "Since last n|ght the Ypres salient f has again been the chief scene of ac- Itlvlty. Oh the southern portion of it I—frolit Hill 60 to a point about 1B00 [yards north, the enemy shelled our I trenches heavily for a'bout three hours I this afternoon. The bombardment was 1 preceded In tho morning by the shell- ling of the town of Ypres and the back I area southward. "Nofth of the Melnln road our lines I were shelled intermittently during the I day. -■-There were no infantry actions dur- | ing the day on this point, beyond an I attempt by the enemy to rush ono of lour block houses In Sanctuary wood. I This was repulsed. "Last tilght, after a heavy bombard- I ment of our trenches between Thlepval, 1 Blaumont and, Hamel. the enemy, In I the course of a raid Iii tho Ancre val- y, was able to cut, off a few more I men who formed part of t…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0386918
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text