CAPTURED GUNS TOTAL 24.
Received August 19, 5.5 p.m
LONDON, August 18
Sir Douglas Haig reports: The French slightly improved their position in the neighbourhood of Steinbeck. The enemy has not attempted fiurther counter-attacks.
The Anglo-French have.now captured 25 guns, including a number of heavies. "We secured the positions on the Loos, battlefront which we captured yesterday and made fresh progress westward of Lens. The prisoners in this area now number 1120. We successfully raided eastward of Vermelles, reaching the enemy's support line.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17066, 20 August 1917, Page 5
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83CAPTURED GUNS TOTAL 24. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17066, 20 August 1917, Page 5
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