WET AND STORMY WEATHER.
IMPORTANT POSITIONS CAP-
TURED
i , ! The High Commissioner reports: — : LONDON, April 12 (3.15 p.m.) Sir Douglas Haig reports: The weather continues wet and* stormy. Early this inoining we captured two important positions of the enemy's line northwards of Vimy Ridge, astride the River Souchez. We took a, number of prisoners. Last night two hostile attacks on our new ppsi--1 tions at the northern end of Vimy i .Uidge were driven off ny machinegun fire with heavy German losses. Some progress was made southward of the-River Scarpe.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 86, 13 April 1917, Page 5
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90WET AND STORMY WEATHER. Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 86, 13 April 1917, Page 5
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