IMPORTANT POSITIONS CAP= TURED NEAR YPRES.
LONDON/August 10. The United Press' correspondent at headquarters states that the British attacked on a two-mile front ut dayiignt from the Ypres-Zonnebeke Road, near Frozenberg, to the. Ypres-Menin Roa/J. and advanced their lin^ about 500 yards. Their' object was the hign ground at Clencorse Wood, which was occupied despite <i stubborn defence. The enemy artillery was active ail night eastwaid of Steenbeck, also on ths coast bee-tor. The sky is overcast, but our airmen are active. They downed seveu aeroplanes and 11 other's were brought down uncontrollable ana were, destroyed.
PARIS, August 10. Ihs Petit Parisien's correspondent says the number of British guns >n Klcinders :s increasing daily, and they have re-commeuced their intense and continuous hammering of the German trenches.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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