SUCCESSFUL FRANCO-BRITISH OPERATIONS.
(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Reuter.)
Received February 5, 8.10 p.m
'LONDON, February 4
Sir Douglas Haig reports: We drove off an attack at Rancourt and advanced slightly westward of LeTrauclay. We pushed forward eastward of Beaucourt yesternight on a front of three-quarters of a mile io a depth of five hundred yards. We heavily repulsed two counter-attacks on Sunday, and twice entered the German trenches south-east of Souchez and bombed dugouts.
A French communique saj's: German works in various parts were efr feetively bombed, notably in the sentor of Hill 304.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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