GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] A BRITISH MESSAGE. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED LONDON, August 8. Sir Douglas Haig reports that the •enemy’s further attacks during th© morning and afternoon, astride of Bray Corbie road were repulsed after sharp fighting. _ ; . Attempted enemy raids southward of Hamel and southward of La Basse© were driven off. Th© progress of our patrols east ' Robecq continued and our lino between the La wo and Clarence rivers were advanced to a depth of a' thousand yards on a front of nearly five miles. Our patrols entered the enemy trenches east of Nieppe forest.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1918, Page 2
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