LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
THE WESTERN THEATRE.
THE BRFTISH ADVANCE
THREE VILLAGES TAKEN
4000 PRISONERS TAKEN
LONDON, September 17. ■ Sir Douglas Haig reports: — Two local counter-attacks were bent-en off, and we hold the line gained yesterday, running 500 .yards north of High Wood and including the whole of the large villages of Courcelette, Martinpuich, and Flers, each fully twice the size of Guiliemont. We havo advanced since -Friday to a depth of from''one *o tw|> miles on a" six-mile frtMfc We took prisoner to-jday 1700 men. of whom 51 were officers. The total of prisoners taken in the two days-is ,ovr>r 4000. of whom 11(> ;i>o officers. We liave also taken nix guns and
upwards of oO machine-guns have been i taken or destroyed, and much material I captured. Two additional German aeroplanes were destroyed on Friday, and two additional British machines are missing.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 5
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143LAST NIGHTS NEWS. THE WESTERN THEATRE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 5
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