GERMAN COMMUNIQUE
REPORTED CAPTURE OF 100 GUNS
t. r> «: • , LONDON, 2nd December. A German official report states : There has been a most violent .artillery bombardment all night astride the Passchendaele Eidge. English attacks east •nd- west of Moeuvres broke down. We cleared the enemy out of Masnieres T^F™*?., stronf counter-attacks after desperate fighting 'on the west bank' of the Scheldt, and also westward of VendhuiUe, taking several hundred prisoners. Our captures bow total sixty ,guns and one hundred machine guns. ■ (Received December 4, 11.30 a-m.) . ,/'■ ™. . ,*•".•' LONDON, 3rd December. . AdraraJty per Wireless Press.—A German official report states': Testerday we.beat off strong English attacks north of Passchendaele The firine increased in violence in the evening. '■ ... We_ repulsed an attack between Inchy and Bourlon. Since Friday -we hay* .taken six thousand prisoners and one hundred guns.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 134, 4 December 1917, Page 7
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