SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT
VILLAGE OP MASNIERES GIVEN UP
CAUSTBALtAN-N«W ZBALANB CABLB ASSOCIATION AND RICTI*.)
v *+^- r Do"?l^ Hai.e reports ;^^ North Country, and Home'Co^nty'"^^* battalions this morning captured some fortified buildings and strong points on the mam ridge north of Passchendaele. We withdrew unmolested last night from the sharp salient formed by . Masnieres, which the enemy was still shelling this morning. Ten hostile attacks on this- fjont during the last twenty-four hours were completely repulsed r: Fighting occurred in and around Gonnelieu. We broke up attacks in the *• neighbourhood of La Vacquene and Bourlon. Our artillery successfully engaged the enemy's concentrations of infantry in the vicinity'of Moeuvres In sfite ■of the prevalence of clouds and mist on Saturday/our aeroplanes made several • successful^ reconnaißsances m areas near the battlefront, bombing and machine-
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 134, 4 December 1917, Page 7
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