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August 10, 1917

10 Thursday Aug 2017

Posted by The Times Report in Britain at home, Diplomacy & foreign affairs, Eastern Front, European theatre, Western Front

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1917, Arthur Henderson, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, Flanders, Germany, Great Britain, peace, prisoners of war, Romania, Russia, Steenbeek, Stockholm, Sweden, Trotus, Westhoek, Ypres

British advance east of Ypres on a front of two miles; remainder of Westhoek and the Westhoek Ridge captured and Glencorse Wood entered; 240 prisoners; French cross the Steenbeek. Further Russo-Rumanian retirement in the Trotus Valley. Labour Party Conference, following lead of Mr. Henderson, who omitted to state Cabinet opposition to Stockholm Conference and Russian Government’s pronouncement of its purely party character, decide by a majority of over three to one to send delegates to a “consultative” conference at Stockholm.

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