SLIGHT WITHDRAWAL.
DUE TO UNFAVOURABLE GROUND LONDON, October 10. Mr. Phillips says: Yesterday's ::riginal success somewhat fied. oome of our troops have fallen back to a line which is still much in advance of that held yesterday morning. The relinquishment is clue to the unfavourable ground, which in some places is an impassable quagmire. Nowhere ■lid the enemy drive us out The w.iterlo£-flred condition of cou"" try and the large; niuuuer; of snipers in the trees and concrete redoubts at L'asschendaele retarded our progress. It is impossible to give an exact definition of the present line between Poelcapellc and Broodseinde. Some fortified farms were cleared yesterl'ney had been reocCupied by the enemy but on the average, our net advance was 2000 yards I
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Grey River Argus, 13 October 1917, Page 3
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