BRITISH CONTINUE PROGRESS EAST OF MESSINES.
LINE ADVANCED ON SEVEN-MILE FRONT. YPKES-COMHTES CANAL AGAIN CROSSED. (Received 11.45 a.m.) LOXDOX, June 13. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: —We attacked last evening to the jotrthward and eastward of Mes3ines and astride the Ypres-Comines Canal. The enemy's resistance was quickly o\ereome, and the whole of our objectives were taken in both localities. We captured 150 prisoners, and gained a howitzer and seven machine-guns. The result of these operations and the constant pressure wo have put on the enemy since the 7th, is that we occupy the German front trenches from the River Lys, -which runs through Armentieres, to the River Wsrnave, a tributary which flows into the Lys south-west of Ploegsteert, and have advanced our line from 500 to 1,000 yards between Warneton and Klein Zillebeke, over a distance of seven miles.—(High Commissioner's Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 143, 16 June 1917, Page 5
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