THE EFFORT UNRELAXED.
FURTHER GAINS RECORDED. i A message from the High Commissioner received, yesterday afternoon stated : British official,: South of the ArrasCambrai road this afternoon, we stormed tho 'villages of Hemnel and Wan court and occupied the heights on the eastern bank 1-urther progress was' raado during the day ViS RiSll n er Scarpe and east of th ® Vimy Ridge. Our gams reported during the morning north of tHe Vimy Ridge were ;^ nd t] \l lengthened. Last night, north-east of Epehy, a laree enemy detachment came under the eff(* casualties lnfantry and offered heavy During the fighting on the 9th and 10th we captured .prisoners from all the infantry regiments of-six German divisions Ihe number of prisoners in each of these divisions exceeds 1000. In spite of the exceedingly bad weather our aeroplanes were active again yesterday and seized every opportunity to'harass the nostile troops by machine-gun fire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16978, 14 April 1917, Page 7
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