LABOUR UNITS' GALLANTRY
, p . , LONDON, May 20. (Received May 21, at 8 p.m.) Sir D. Haig has 'issued a special order paying a tribute to the devotion, endurance, and gal]an,try of the Labour units under most trying circumstances at the beginning of the present battle. Their discipline and spirit enabled them to render most valuable assistance to the rest of the army, FRENCH LOCAL OPERATION. GROUND GAINED NEAR LOCRE. BRITISH AND GERMAN RAIDS. LONDON, May 20 (Received May 21, at 8.20 p.m.) Sir Douglas Haig reports : Th e French earned out a successful night operation east and north-east of Locre, gaining all their objectives on a front of 4000 yards and taking over 400 prisoners. koca'l fighting in the morning northward of Albert resulted in a few of our men beine reported missing. We rushed a German post eastward of Hebuterne, taking prisoners and two machine guns. Hostile ga s shelling is active northward of B. th une.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 5
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