SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 1 August 1918, Page 5

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT.

ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVE

(Received Aug. 1, 9.25 a.m.)

LONDON, July 31

Sir Douglas Haig reports: Successful raids and patrol encounters took place in the neighborhood of Bethune and on the northern sector of our front. We drove off raiders southwestward of La Bassee. The enemy's artillery is active astride the Somme and about the Merris and Kemmel sec-tor.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter. ■