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AUSTRALIANS ADVANCE ON
TWO-MILE FRONT.
SUCCESSFUL SCOTTISH RAID AT
LA BASSEE,
LONDON, July 8,
Sir Douglas Haig reports that the Australians advanced their line slightly on a front of 3000 yards astride the Somme, capturing prisoners. Scottish troops carried out a successful raid southward of the La Bassee Canal. The Australians entered the trenches eastward of Hazelbrouck.
Hostile artillery is active astride the Somme following our operations, and also westward of Beaumont Hamel and in, the neighbourhood of Bethune.
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3942, 10 July 1918, Page 2
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