BRITISH ADVANCE LINE
ON FRONT OF TWO MILES
PRISONERS AND MACHINE-GUNS I TAKEN. j (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) i (Reuter's Telegram.) | (Received Sent. 17, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. Sir Douglas Haig reports : There was a successful minor operation right astride the Ypres-Comines Canal. We advanced our line on a front of over two miles and captured a number of prisoners and machine-guns. Raiding and patrol encounters occurred m. the neighborhood of Moeuvres and Gavrelle. We established pew posts m the vicinity of Sauchy, Caughy and Oppy. ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14711, 17 September 1918, Page 3
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