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General Haig has during the week pushed our lines still

nearer to Lens. Between last Sunday night and Tuesday our troops ad- vanced on both sides of the Souchez rivulet and occupied the village of La Coulotto in the southern outskirts of the town, once a great mining centre, and now a mass of ruins. South-east of Arras the Hindenburg Line has been further weakened at Fontaine-lez- Croisilles, north of Bullecourt. Elsewhere there has been the usual trench fighting. The presence of British troops at Lombaertzyde, on the Belgian coast north of Nieuport, has been officially mentioned.

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