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Show GREAT ADVANCE of emeus Troops Push Along 3,500-yard 3,500-yard Front and Capture Wounded and Unwound-ed Unwound-ed Germans. Ottawa. Ont., Nov. 21. An advance by the Canadian troops along a front of about 3.500 yards with the capture of 619 wounded and unwounded Germans, is described in a communique com-munique issued today by the war records office of-fice covering the operations o,f November 18 by the Dominion soldiers at the British front. Canadian guns had been concentrating a heavy fire for several days on a strong line of German trenches which became the objective ob-jective when the infantry offensive began at 6 o'clock. This objective was consolidated in its entirety, the statement says, the movement being virtually "a swing forward of our left pivoting on our right." I The gam varied from about 200 yards on the right to nearly 1.000 yards on the left. The troops at the left advanced 500 yards beyond be-yond the objective, the communique declares, and took a section of the Grandcourt trenches which was consolidated successfully, but this unit was withdrawn later "because the position posi-tion formed too dangerous a salient." Canadian losses were comparatively light, "with fewer casualties than were to be expected." |