BRITISH OPERATIONS IN THE WEST
GERMANS ADMIT HAVING TO RETIRE AT ROEUX. (Australian and New Zealand and Reuter.) Received May 18, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, May 18. German official: Owing to strong English counter-attacks, we gave up the ground which we captured at Roeux. We repulsed English attacks northward of the Scarpe and south-west of Reincourt. During May we took 2300 English prisoners on this front.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13488, 19 May 1917, Page 5
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