DIFFICULT FIGHTING REPORTED
BRITISH GAIN OBJECTIVES.
Received August 12, 5.5 p.m
•LONDON, August 11. 'Mr. Gibbs reports: There was heavy fighting this morning south-east of Westhoek, after night-long artillery fire. The later fighting was more difficult, as the rearward machineguns took advantage of a check caused to our troops by a wire tangle in the woods. We gained the main points attacked on the left, indeed more, for our men impetuously advanced too far and had to be recalled. On our right the fighting was more desperate and less progress was made.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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