The French retook Arras yesterday morning and have settled into new positions along the Somme and. Aisne rivers to form a line which the Germans have not passed, In Belgium the British and German forces appear to have joined in battle while re-grouping of forces in north-western France continued, In the Cambrai-Arras-Donal triangle the Germans have let loose a "fury of destruction" leaving nothing standing, The R.A.F. incessantly and heavily bombed German concentrations at Aachen and in the Cambrai-Arras regions,
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