FURTHER BRITISH SUCCESSES
■PREVIOUS GAINS EXTENDED. (Ansir&ian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Bee. Sept. 18. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 17. Sir Doug-las Haig reports : —We achieved: ffurUher successes south of the Ancie and extended our gains- on Saturday evenins on a front of ICOO yards in the vicinity of Cotrrcellette. We ~ obtained considerable success on Saturday evening in the neighbourhood or ThiepvaL capturing; the fortification known as -the "Danube'" trench on a front of a-tnile. The Germans here abandoned considerable quantities of rifles and equipment. We also captured a strongly defended work at Moquet Farm, whose possession has been hotly contested for weeks; There were a number of successful minor operations during the night on other parts of the front.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 18 September 1916, Page 5
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