SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS.
CAPTURES MOUNTING UP.
Received 12.45 a.m., Sept. 3 LONDON, Sept.' 2. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We successfully raided eastward of Wytschaete. . We bomhed dug-outs and machme gunned the escaping garrisons. ■ We repulsed raiders south-westward of Lavricourt.
Aerial activity was resumed yesterday.
The British prisonered during August t-279, of whom 158 were officers, making 10,697 (including 234 officers) since the morning of July 31st. Thirty-eight guns (including six heavies) 200 machine guns, and 73 trench mortars were captured during August.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17077, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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