NO DEFINITE OBJECTIVE
COUNTRY DOTTED WITH ISOLATED POSTS
x LONDON,'24th April. Correspondents at British Headquarters state that three days' fine weather preceded the Scarpe attack, which occupied a* front of twelve thousand yards. At least two thousand prisoners were taken. The attack wag .consider^ ably lesa important than that delivered on 9th April, because there was no de-* finite objective like the old Germah first line. Instead of a continuous trench system, the British were facing rolling country dotted with many isolated posts, and short lengths of trenches. Such country offered the artillery no defined target or object of attack. Many of the Germans in the second lines fought stubbornly, and there was considerable bayonet fighting. It is evident that the Germans are making every effort to delay our advance inorder to gain time to complete the defences in the rear,, , ''
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 7
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141NO DEFINITE OBJECTIVE Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 7
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