BAPAUME TAKEN BY NEW ZEALANDERS ON THURSDAY
ENEMY FORCED TO ABANDON DEARLY-WON GROUND. GREAT LOSS IN MEN, GUNS AND MATERIAL INFLICTED. I High Coiamisiioner's Cable. (Heed. 11.50 pan,) LONDON, Aug. 29-10.50 p.m. ."." ; Sir Douglas Haig reports: Successful attacks since August 8 by the Fourth and : First Armies rendered the enemy's positions on the l \ old Somme battlefield untenable., On the whole front, from Bapanme southward, \ the enemy was forced to abandon, with great loss in I prisoners, guns, and material, also killed, and wounded, the ground f' : gained by him with such heavy cost in March and April this year. We reached the west bank of the Somme opposite Brie and Peronne, and •" have taken. Hem. '-■ This morning the New Zealanders captured - Bapaume. - . 1
... United tori*. , , (Received 12.25 »m.) LONDON, Aug. » The Australians have captured Hem.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16943, 31 August 1918, Page 7
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136BAPAUME TAKEN BY NEW ZEALANDERS ON THURSDAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16943, 31 August 1918, Page 7
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