25 AUGUST 1917, Page 1

Last Sunday, east of Langemarck, our troops again advanced on

a front of a mile, clearing out a number of fortified farms. On Wednesday a larger operation from Lengernarek to the Menin road, on a front of three and a half miles, enabled us to make a general advance of half-a-mile and to recapture some of the hills lost the week before, with part of Inverness Copse. In this obstinate fighting only two hundred and fifty prisoners were taken, but the enemy losses were very heavy.