BRITISH SLIGHTLY PRESSED BACK.
INTENSE AERIAL FIGHTING
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
and Reuter.)
(Received August 12, 11.40 p.m.) London, August 12.
Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy .again attacked this morning our new positions northward ; pf the Ypree-Menin road, and pressed ,iiS'back slightly.
We gained ground .on the right bank of the Stenbeck, in>the neighbourhood o£ the Ypres-Staden railway.
There was intense aerial activity and the most severe fighting by large formations all day. We brought down sixteen enemy machines. Twelve of ours
.are missing,
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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14481, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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