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The British advance on the Somme has also been very

substantial, as advances are reckoned in this battlemented, wire-bound, burrowed, and intensively engineered land. At the end of last week a way was gallantly burst through north and north-west of Pozieres. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Australian troops took the German second-line trenches on a front of two thousand yards and captured several hundred prisoners. This was the culmination of a systematic, advance lasting some days. The total gain during the period was four to six hundred yards on a front of four miles. The village of Guillemont is a serious obstacle in our way, but our troops are already fighting near the railway station.

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