STILL PUSHING FORWARD ROUND BAPAUME.
TWO MORE VILLAGES ON THE SOMME CAPTURED. (Received 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 26. Tbe advance in the Bapaume sector continues. The village of Favreuil, & mile and a-half north-east of Bapaume, has been taken. They have also reached the outskirts of Thilloy, a mile south-west of Bapaume. On the Somme the villages of Suzanne, two miles east of Bra}-, north of the river, and Cappy, two miles to the southward, on the south bank, were both captured. The advance is now nearing Longueval, between Albert and Bapaume, two miles south-west of Flere. On Sunday the British captured 1500 prisoners. The Australians have captured 12,000 Germans since August 8, a larger number than the total Australian casualties in killed, wounded, and prisoners during the same period. The casualties in the British Third and Fourth Armies from August 8 to Sunday last are estimated at 23,000, while the German prisoners taken by these armies in the same time exceed 20,000. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 204, 27 August 1918, Page 5
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