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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 5

LATE NEWS

I FRESH SUCCESSES BY THE BRITISH \ THE AUGUST TOTAL OF CAPTURES. AN IMMENSE HAUL OF : BOOTY (Rec. September 8, 1.40 a.m.) London, September 2. _ Sir Douglas Haig reports:—"W© cap riod out successful minor operations at a number of points south of the Arras- ; Cambrai road. Wo have driven tho enemy out of tho high ground at Norval and captured Beaulencourt. Wo are pressing the enemy hard in Lc Trans-. loy and completed the capture of Bullecourt and Langnicourt, . tak- 1 hundreds of prisoners iuj those operations. Tho Canadians re* pulsed a counter-attack against tho new positions wo gained this morning northward of Hendecourt. Our progress was continued on the Lone and Lys sectors. We Imvo reached Dcu- . lieu, Lo Vorrier, and Steenworok, and' are engaging tho enemy, at Neuvo Eglise, and Wulverghem. "During the month of August wee took prisoner 57,318 of the enemy, of whom 1283 were officers, and we" also 'took G-57 guns, including 150 heavy , guns, 5750 1000 tronohmortars. Other captures included. thre« trains, nine locomotives, ami! Jiumerous complete ammunition and engineer dumps, containg many hundred, thousand rounds of gun and small arms ammunition,' and immense quantities; of other war material.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo I Asßn.-Router. !■ GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT (Rec. September 3, 1.40 a.m.) London, September 2. \ A wireless German offioinl evening' report states:—"Tho-English pressed us back in places between the Scarpa and tho Somme."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asßn.-Reuter.