FORCED BACK
LATEST
BRITISH HAVE TO WITHDRAW.
FROM ADVANCED POSITIONS
(High Commissioner's Cable.)
LONDON, 1.30 p.m. Monday. Sir Douglas Haig reports that early this morning the enemy strongly attacked under cover of a heavy bombardment the positions which we captured on Thursday morning eastward of Monchy Lepreux. After severe lighting we were compelled to fall back from certain advanced post 6 which we had established in front of our main new position.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13512, 19 June 1917, Page 5
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