SURPRISING ADVANCES BY BRITISH DIVISIONS.
Received 0.0 p.m., Oct. 6. LONDON, Oct. 5
Sir Douglas Haig, in a supplementary report, states: In operations by the Second British Army in Flanders on September 2y, and subsequent days, the 29th and 35th Divisions rendered distinguished service in most unfavourable -weather. They advanced to ii depth oi: over nine miles across diflL cult country, clearing the whole range east and eoti'th-east of Ypres, taking a prominent part, in the capture, by British troops, of over 4,000 prisoners and a hundred guns. The 9th Division, on the first, day of the attack, took Dcccla e re, five miles eastward of its starting point, and three days later reached Ledeghem.
Oil the first clay the 29th Division passed beyond Ghehivelt and captured Kruiseecke. having advanced five miks alons the Menin road. On it s right, the 35th Division also passed far be_ xond our old positions in 1917, and took Zandvcorde.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17397, 7 October 1918, Page 5
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