BRITISH SUCCESSES.
500 YAEDS OF ENEMY TRENCHES
CAPTURED.
.LONDON, Feb. 6
Sir Douglas Haig' reports: We repulsed three attempted raids on * the Somme front. A local operation which we carried out last night north-east-wards of;Gueudecourt was entirely successful. We occupied 500 yards of the enemy's trenches and repulsed two counter-attacks. We entered the enemy's lines last night at thres points, in the neighbourhood of Bouchavesnes, Pys and Grandecourt.
The enemy made four unsuccessful counter-attacks on o\ir 'new lines eastward of Beaucourt. Our positions were consolidated. , ~A party reached our lines northeastward of Vermelles, but was ejectea.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 8 February 1917, Page 5
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