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ANG YUK DENTIST, EROT the Into BIEN TING.

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TERMS VERY MODERATE

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the half-moon of the captured ground ings and strong points at Goudbers and were plentifully supplied with spur. Nevertheless, our troops roads machine-guns and Lewis guns.

steady progress and captured, at ar early hour, Passehendaele, Village, Masselmarkt, and Goudberg hatolet, and gained all their objects befere Inid-day.

We have taken a number of prisoners.

It is raining at intervals.

The principal feature of the fight ing was the enemy's consistent re füsal to allow our inen "to comë tợ close quarters. The resistance con- sted inainty of long-range macline- gun fire, which, owing to the un favourable weather conditions,- wa

Our guns are dealing pfectively pet very effective.” with the enemy's Fatteries and concentrations of infantry,

Our walking wounded agree that the Hun did more running-wi this bottle than usual.

LATER.

Our line has been carried nearly Reuter's Correspondent at Head due north and south along Brood- quarters states that success signals cinde and Passchendaele ridge and have been soaring to the sky with we command a very wide observation gratifying frequency during the early over the plains of Belgium

forenoon.

Wo have been 5ghting through Passchendaele and beyond, but the details of the situation thereabouts are not yet elucidated.

The Canadians were digging then- selves in at some points to the cast.

of Passchendaele, and during the

THE GERMAN REPOHT

A German official communiqué states-

There was desperate fighting in Flanders yesterday..

morning this was several times re- The enemy penetrated Passchen- ported but the enemy were massing duele. We retook the castern por heavily for a counter-attack and at mid-day an intense barrage was

opened along the section where the enemy was presumed to be on the fine of our new front.

We reached our Bnal objective in large numbers with the guns well forward and therefore in a good posi tion for supporting the infantry.

tion of the village,

Our line now runs along the eastern edge of the village.

Strong attneks against Becelaere and Gheluvelt failed. ?

A SUCCESSFUL RAID BY THE LIVERPOOLS.

LOND Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports ---

`The "walking" woundedą "* are in high spirits over the day's achieve ments and say that our barrage was wonderful and the best they had aver seen and also that the fewnew of the

The Liverpool troops carried out a prisoners was due to the Germans not staying to fight close quarters, successful maid, to the north-west and it may therefore be expected of Quebat, taking a few German that we collected a respectable num-prisoners.

ber of machine-guns.

The prisoners are mostly of a better type than usual, being well nourished and well clad, indicating that the Hums are using picked trops in their endeavour to arrest our encroach ments into the key-line of Western Belgium:

There was a lot of fring from Passchendaele church which our artillery and infantry eventually Kilenced

We are consolidating the position, gained yesterday:

EREMY ATTACK REPULSED BY „THER FRENCH.

LONDON NOT,

A French communiqué, stafës

violent artillery bon the region of Cha the right of the Meuse

by

Hallowe

Attack Our fire drove back the alsailunte

We encountered, in the centre of Mosselmarkt & lurge concreted re who were unable to reach our lines. doubt our

trouble, aveng

after fot of surround it i order to reduce li

The Germans have been to heavily abelling thi

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