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Last Sunday the enemy restricted his main efforts to the

sector nearest to Amiens, between Montdidier and the Somme. A series of heavy attacks enabled him to make some progress in the Luce Valley and to capture Hangard, to the west of Demuin, but Allied counter-attacks in the evening regained the village and restored the line. Further south, near Montdidier, there was hot fighting for Grivesnes, but the French would not be driven from the village. The enemy was now compelled by sheer exhaustion to call a halt, and Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday passed in comparative quiet, broken only by some sharp local fighting on both sides of the Somme. In a brisk encounter on Tuesday night our men retook Ayette, south of Arras, capturing six German officers and a hundied and eighty-six men.

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