BRITISH CAPTURES.
12,000 PRISONERS IN TWO DAYS NARROW ENEMY SALIENTS, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Reoeived April 13, 0.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. The latest estimates of the captures during Monday's and Tuesday's fighting are over 12,000 prisoners, 150 guns, and innumerable machineguns and trench mortars. Experts suggest that the Germans were obliged to employ large forces at Bullecourt because eight miles away the line still bulged westward towards Arras; and;'ijhey -were < in. danger of. being pinched out.' ~ > The salient north of Vimy Ridge and soutk-Trest of Lens;. is also dau{>erously nari'ow.r ■■•:.■.■■- ',
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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 86, 13 April 1917, Page 5
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92BRITISH CAPTURES. Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 86, 13 April 1917, Page 5
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