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HAIG HOLDS GAINS; PUSHES FORWARD ON YPRES RIDGE; British Troops Make a Slight Advance Southwest of the Village of Passchendaele. NOW IN HOUTHULST WOOD Friday's Attack Gave Them a 1,300-Yard Strip of It 200 Yards Wide. TOOK 1,200 YARDS OF RIDGE Captured Passchendaele Positions Are 800 Yards Deep--Berlin Admits Three-Quarter-Mile Withdrawal. Ridge Positions Pierced 800 Yards. Germans Kill Stretcher-bearers. British Lose Poelcappelle Brewery. HAIG HOLDS GAINS; PUSHES FORWARD Heavy Rain Yesterday Morning. Germans Still Claim Poelcappelle.
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$3,600
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