BRITISH ATTACK
BETWEEN CAMBRAI AND
ST. QUENTIN
POSITIONS CAPTURED ON A WIDE
FRONT.
the High Commissioner reports: —
LONDON, 13th April, 2.20 p.m
British official.—Sir Douglas Haig reports: We attacked, during the night, the region between St. Quentin and Cambrai. After some sharp fighting we captured the enemy's positions on a wide front, from northwards of Hargicourt to Metz-en-Couture. We now hold Sart Farm, Gouche Wood, Gouzeaucourt Wood and village, and Millage Wood.
A successful night raid south-west-wards of Loos enabled us to bomb the enemy's dugouts, considerably damaging his defences.
In the neighbourhood of Ploegstreet (north of Armentieres), a hostile raiding party came under our machine-gun fire and failed to reach our trenches.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 6
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