BRITISH SUCCESS SOMEWHAT MODIFIED.
DUE TO GROUND-NOT GERMANS
Received October 11, 10.5 p:m. LONDON, October 11
Mr. Phillips says: Yesterday's original success was somewhat modified between Broodseinde and the Thorout railway, embracing the area, of our attack from Passchendaele to the southern border of Houthulst Forest. Some of our troops have fallen back to a line which is still much in advance of that held yesterday morning. The relinquishment was due to unfavourable ground, which in some places was an impassable quagmire. Nowhere did the enemy drive us out. The water-logged condition of the country and the large number of snipers ensconced in trees and concrete redoubts at Passchendaele retarded our progress. It is impossible to give the exact definition of the present line between Poelcappelle and Broodseinde. Some fortified farms cleared yesterday have been re-occupied by the enemy, but on the average our nett advance is 2000 yards. \
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17111, 12 October 1917, Page 5
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