A RIDGE OF FORTRESSES
NINE OUT OF ELEVEN STRONGHOLDS CAPTURED
(Published in The Times.)
LONDON, 24th September. The Times correspondent with Western Headquarters in France says that a General Staff map was recently.'found on a German officer who was -taken prisoner, which indicated that "eleven vital points must be held while one defender remains alive." Nine of these are already in the Allies' hands, and the remaining two are outside the scope of the battle for the ridge. The captured positions are so^ closely crowded that this obscures the significance of each. Tho whole ridge is one continuous chain of fortresses, protecting each othei*,,and so interlocked that their strength is'increased a thousandfold.".
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 7
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112A RIDGE OF FORTRESSES Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 7
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