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AERIAL AND ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. (Australian and New Zealand and Reuter.) Received June 18, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, June 18. Sir Douglas Haig reports hostile artillery activity southward of Croiselles, south-westward of Lens, and at a number of points between Armentieres and Ypres. There was great air activity on Saturday. We brought down seven aeroplanes and drove down three. Two of ours are missing. AN EFFECTIVE LITTLE JOB. BAVARIANS SURPRISED AND CAPTURED WHILE AT BREAKFAFST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received June 18, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, June 18. Mr Percival Phillips states that one of the neatest achievements in the recent fighting was the capture of Infantry Hill, near Monchy, where two companies of Bavarians were surprised breakfasting in the trenches. The British quickly slipped across without firing a shot, and brought back 17 within ..two minutes. It was the quickest and most effective little job in the recent operations, the Bavarians being compelled to leave their ■teaming coffee.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13512, 19 June 1917, Page 5
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