LINE ADVANCED ON THE SCARPE
SUCCESSFUL AIR-RAIDS
IThe High Commissioner reports: —
LONDON, 26th April. A British official despatch states: Our line was advanced slightly during the day south of the Scarpe Biver. Two, German field guns were captured in yesterday's fighting in this neighbourhood. Many thousand German dead are lying on the battlefield, which we have occupied. . ■ Several hostile raiding parties were repulsed near Lens and Ypres. Our aeroplanes made.many raids yesterday, lombing with good:effect railway junctions, aerodromes, billets, and ammunition dumps. In one raid a large comb struck the engine of a moving train, blowing the engine off the line and wrecking the train. A hostile troop transport was successfully engaged with nachine-guri fire. . , . ..
\ (ATTSTBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND BEUTBB.) \ ■ .(Eeceived April 27 10.30 a.m.) ' ; \ '■.■■■ : • • ..;■■■■ london, 26th April. Sir Douglas Haig reports : The enemy in the evening endeavoured to resake our new positions in the neighbourhood of Gavrelle. Our artillery barage caught the advancing troops, and. completely-repulsed them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1917, Page 7
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159LINE ADVANCED ON THE SCARPE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1917, Page 7
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