GERMAN ATTACKS BETWEEN LA CLYTTE AND VOORMEZEELE.
ALLIED FRONT LINES PENETRATED.
ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN ADVANCE.
BRITISH PROGRESS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
The Australians made a successful attack between the Snmme and the Ancre, advancing SUO yard* on a front of 1100 y ; *rds. After heavy artillery preparation, the Germans launched a strong local atraok b -t#e -n La Clytte and Voormezeele, and succeeded in the centre in entering the Allies' froat lines in Ridge vVooJ. They were repulsed at other points. The French extended th-ir position south of La Clytte. The British h-we occupied Kerkuk, eighty miles from Mosul, the Turks retreatiag northward.
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GERMAN ATTACKS BETWEEN LA CLYTTE AND VOORMEZEELE., Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14768, 10 May 1918
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129GERMAN ATTACKS BETWEEN LA CLYTTE AND VOORMEZEELE. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14768, 10 May 1918
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