BRITISH PRESSED BACK SLIGHTLY.
GROUND GAINED ELSEWHERE.
INTENSE AERIAL FIGHTING.
Received August T2, 11.30 pm
LONDON, August 11
Sir Douglas Haig reports: The enemy re-attacked this morning our new positions . northward of the Ypres-Menin road and pressed as back slightly.
We gained ground on the right bank of the Stenbeck, in the neighbourhood of the Ypres-Staden railway.
There was intense aerial activity and most severe fighting by large formations all day. We downed sixteen enemy machines. Twelve of ours are missing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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