FRENCH PROGRESS EAST OF CUMIERS
ENEMY PROGRESS AT HAITDROCUONT QUARRIES. PARIS. 25. Ai communique states that on Wednes✓da\v night- we progressed -with, hand grenades in the tluckets immediately eastward of Cumiers. ■The enemy gained a- footing in a trench, northward of Haudromont quarries. ■ ■ There is continuous violent bombardment on hoth sides in the Douaumont region "rrifchout infantry - action. OVERSEAS FORCES. fßec. May 26, 9.10 a.m.) PARIS, Hay 25. General Sir Douglas Haig, in acknowledging. General Joffre's greeting to the oversea forces, said it "was their pride and -privilege to share the dangers of a. common: battlefield and defend' the same noble cause of freedom.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 May 1916, Page 5
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