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During most of the week General Home, on the British

left, has stood firm on the west bank of the Canal du Nord, north of Mceuvres, while the Allied line to the south of him, as far as the Aisne, has moved forward rapidly. The British centre and right on Thursday week passed the Somme on a wide front north and south of Peronne. On Friday week they were seven miles to the east of the river, despite the desperate resistance of the enemy rearguards in the centre due east of Bapaume, where the large Havrincourt Wood had to be cleared step by step. By Sunday last they had reached the old British trenches in this region, which the enemy tried to hold. The first week of September yielded nineteen thousand prisoners for our armies alone.

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