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GENERAL FOCH'S TASK. the country is less wooded.. Hülle ses still fortuing the French battle frons may love and rare, and villages are numerous, perhaps suffice to throw some light on tha ∙Here the main inse which the probable course of future operations. Kho French had to overcome was that made Frenol are undoubtedly handicapped by by the enemy in his village for reason kides lines of /mamber that divider) thair MH. Warner Allen, the

Such small woods ar there were have positions, but their successes up to the been torn to piecos by shall fre, and only present have ensured to them the pngad, the Brities res with the French exist in the form of bare trunks rising important means

mmunication. from a chaos of shelf holes. The villages between the two banks of the Somme In the Soome off, sive the French themselves have been razed to the ground, went of Perɔnna.

llen in length, and the ruins of Dompierre, Begquincourt, battle front is about, ter n

Assevillecs, and Heebecours are almost an “haya shown, It runs, na the communiques

| shapeless 'and un-recognisable as the ruins from the districa of Hardecoun

north of Troy or Caribage, and far more e of the Somme, where it joins up

In the direction of Flancourt the ground begion to riso, and then falls away towards Mr Atholl Andersonia Hodgson

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Mrs AE Hodgins ess, to rise again in a series of small. G. E. Anderson Me H. E. Hollands

ist above the Some, The most Hr R. L. Atkinson Mr G. Holman and St. Quentin. This road provides hills of these hillock, which is Mr. Murry Bain: MrA Shelton Hooper striking landmark in the southern section importa

and south-west of Baches, J. H

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W. Bell & infintMs F, H. Howard captured by the French to warring Med Mrs R. Hunter: Barker Mr and Mrs. J. P. Mrs E R. Ballion Jefferson

British front, to a point the than those of Pompeii

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the French extreme right. It follows north-week

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a course that is absolutely direct; east and Nov. 18. Nov. 26 west, as if it had been drawn with Dec. 15mler. until after crossing, the French Dec. 3 1017

trenches, it disappears in enemy territory

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The French left had to work along the af vantage that I have just visited in river in nison with the Englab, and its MEN closa proximity to the line. On the movements had accessarily to be Mr B. Davenport Air & K

ensordinated with the advance of the Capt J. Dewar Mr J. extreme right the horizon line is formed

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Mr J. Gibbs wouthern bank, the lie at the comtry Mr J. T. Givotovaky Mr H. H. Taylor The character of the dghting in this further north is clearly visible. It con- Mr. G. Gartion Mr. A. E Todt sector both north and south of the slats of a series of bare downs, dotted Mr V: Goulbourn Mrr P. Trump and Amicos-St. Quentin Road is conditioned here and there with small, woods, which Mr and Mrs P. Jisfant

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Mrs & Miss Willsher Mr G. G. Wood Me W. J. Hodgs demolish not only the German under villages: the defence is bound to depend Mr W. B. Hind gbund fortresses in the villages, but also mainly on a series of trenches. and in the little woods that gave over-to the la this open country that the Fiench most complicated system of entrench-advance above. Curlu and Hays has inkou ments. It is for this reason that progress place. The villages of Maurepas and on the right wing has, relatively speaking. Clery are the two great bastions on which Mr R Buthan been slower than that further north the German trench system is based. Mr and Mrs H.

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This movement was carried out with Grenouilliers, les exactly opposite Frise Mrs. E. Gaudiot complete success, in spite of the obvious across the base of the loop. At this point Mrs C. Gaudiat danger of a counter-attack on the flank the Somme fows. Firat north for Frise, during its execution, and the positions then at Curin turns suddenly south, Rev. B. G. E. Gritt

Mr Grundy which opposed & German assault from enclosing a promontery of swamps.. the trenches which they will held south When last January the Germans captured Mr F. A Haxeland of the gap opened by the French advance the village of Frise, their Presa sanounced r & Mrs E. Howard da Vergn wers beld despite the enemy's artillery that this success represented a serious Mr Lee Jones The new French line thus formed was advance. As a matter of fast at that Mrs Jones

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exposed, on the one hand, we fire of besry moment Erise was perfectly useless to Mr&Mrs A Lembelet Wood guns at distance, which were able to them, as it was also to the French. Once concentrate their shells on a limited and at Frise the Germans simply found them

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