THE FLANDERS BATTLE
| CANADIANS FIRMLY IN PLACE ENEMY'S INFANTRY NOT AGGRESSIVE. (UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION.-COPIRIOHT.) ■ (iDSTBALHN-NEW ZEAUND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 8, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 7th November. In spite of the Germans' orders to contest every inch of ground and to retake the ridge positions immediately, the Canadian* are to-day sitting tight in Passchendaele, thirty hours after its capture; and our gains elsewhere have been maintained. The enemy several times massed for Pnnce Rupprecht's stormers before they had fairly got away. new battlefront There was som? gasshelhng ln the Hanebeek Valley, and the enemy shelled the ground heavily east of the Polygon Wood all day. The Germans also shelled the battery areas, but the infantry showed little inclination to prolong the battle. Bain- is falling this morning, undter which the rain-slaked Canadians are grimly grinning on both sides of the slippery ridge
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 112, 8 November 1917, Page 8
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141THE FLANDERS BATTLE Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 112, 8 November 1917, Page 8
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