GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT.
ALLIES LOSE CAPTURED GROUND
Received August 19th, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, August 17. Wireless German Official:—The second day of the Flanders .battle was decided in our favour. Tlie Anglo-French yesterday morning attacked on a front of thirty kilometers from the Yser to the Lys. They ran over our advanced posts on the Yser Canal, near Driergrachten, captured ground northward and eastward of Bixchoote, penetrated ne*T Langemarck, and advanced as fur as Poelkapelle. We recaptured Langemarck and other positions. The enemy also penetrated near St. Julien, and numerous points to the southward as far as Warneton.
We regained the positions lost near Loos.
We prisonered 600 in Cauriers' Wood We shot down sixteen aeroplanes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17066, 20 August 1917, Page 5
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