Germans Retire From Albert.
ON TWELVE MILE FRONT. Received tins day 11.55 a.m. London, August 5. Mr Percival Phillips says the Gorman retirement on a twelve niile front in the Albert sector apparently, began on Thursday night.. The enemy sent up signal lights all night long in order to deceive the British. . " The correspondent understands that Albert has been evacuated, but as it lies in a hollow exposed to fire and observation by both sides, it is little more than a great shell and gas trap. t A wireless German official re port Btates: On both sides of A 1 bert we withdrew our posts with out interference to thp .-east, bank of the Ancre. AMERICANS TOOK FISMES. ' An American official message states : We have taken Fistmes and hold the south tank'of the Vesle in this sector.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 August 1918, Page 3
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