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Sir Douglas Haig announced on Wednesday that, in consequence of

the enemy's advance on the Lys front, the troops holding our forward positions east of Ypres had been withdrawn to a new line. This retirement, completed by Monday night, involved the evacua- tion of Passchendaele, Poelcappelle, and Langemarck. All our posts were methodically destroy ed before the desolate crater-field was left to the enemy. The reduction of this salient has left us a shorter and more easily defensible line on the lower ridge nearer to Ypres.

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