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Show BRITISH MAKE ANOTHER II 01 Mill Strong Point Southeast of Grandecourt Is Also Captured; Cap-tured; German Lines on Somme Entered. I, i.VDON, Feb. H. 10:07 p. m. British i-aii"ii i' tors in France tonight reports: Durins tiic d ay we captured an onijinv strong point south east of irandccourt and took a few prisoners. Another very miccossful raid was carried car-ried out this morning northeast of Arras. We penetrated li.'O yards into the enemy's defenses and reached his third line of defenses. Two ma-chine-un emplacements and a number num-ber of dugouts were completely destroyed. de-stroyed. Many of the enemy were Killed in t he dugouts, which they refused re-fused to leave. We captured forty prisoners and a machine gun. Our casualties were very light. , We also entered the German lines last night on the Somme and northeast north-east of Yprcs and inflicted considerable consider-able casualties. A hostile raid attempted at-tempted cast of Armentieres during the night was repulsed; a second enemy party reached our trenches south of Messlnes, but was quickly ejected. Three of the enemy's ammunition 9 dumps were exploded today by our Artillery fire. North of 4 Ypres we caused a fire in the pnemy's lines. One German airplane was destroyed in the air flchting yesterday oh our side of the line and one of our ma- i chines was brought down. ! |