THE SOMME.
CHEAT FRENCH CAINS BOTH SIDES OF SOMME, High Commissioner's Gable. LONDON, August 17. The French official report says: On the Somme front, after a violent artillery preparation, our offensive made important gains. ) North of Manrepas our troops, in conjunction with the Bntisn, captured trenches on a front of 1,500 lnetreo, reaching certain points on the Ouillemotitroad. South of Maurepas, en a front of two kilometres and to a depth of 400 metres, all tho enemy positions east of the Maurepas-Clery road are occupied by our infantry, which inflicted .heavy enemy losses. _ South of the Somme we carried with, a single rush powerfully-organised trenches of a length of 1,200 metres, south of Belloy-ennSanterre.
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Evening Star, Issue 16196, 18 August 1916, Page 4
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114THE SOMME. Evening Star, Issue 16196, 18 August 1916, Page 4
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