RAIDING ACTIVITY DISPLAYED BY BRITISH TRIMS
PRISONERS TAKEN IN FRIDAY'S ATTACK NUMBER 9.8, > FIGHT BY AIRMEN AGAINST SUPERIOR SQUADRON. Australian and N.Z. and Renter. (Reed. 7.80 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11 Sir Douglas.Haig reports: Eastern county troops made a success' ful raid south-east of Monchy le Preux, on the Arras-Cambrai Road. Friday's prisoners have now been ascertained to have numbered 943, , including 41 officers. A British air patrol on Saturday encountered a formation double our strength. A determined fight ensued. Four of our machines did" not return. Allied machines, arriving too late to participate, saw several enemy machines falling, out. of control. An earlier report stated: The enemy artillery was'aotive last night north-east of Ypres. We repulsed reconnoitring parties west of Becelaere and north of Poelcapelle. We nfede successful raids in the neighbourhood of Hulluch, north of Lens. Newspapers emphasise the capture of Houthulst forest as a pre-requisite of participation by all the allies in a great offensive.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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