BRITISH OPERATIONS ON THE ANCRE
STRO'XG SYSTEM OF TiKEN'OHES CAPTUR'EJD. . (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) jLONTD-OX, Feb. 12. Sir Douglas Ha is reports that we captured a strong system of trenches at the southern foot of -Serre Hill, on a front of three-quarters of a mile. "We took 215 .prisoners, v.-hich exceeds the total of our casualties. We drove 'back the enemy south of ISaiily-Sallisel. • - We entered Arenclies in the neighbourhood of PVs, iLa Bassee, Neuve Chapelle, and (Fauquissart. A 'French communique reports moderate general artillery activity, and- successful air operations. [Factories and blast furnaces in Lorraine villages -were bombed, and also aerodromes at 'Colmar and Zeebrugge.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 13 February 1917, Page 5
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