Crossword-Solution: EPINETTE 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The German troops, notwithstanding their carefully prepared and strongly intrenched positions, have been driven back for a considerable distance and the villages of Neuve Chapelle and L'Epinette have been captured and held by our army, with heavy losses to the enemy.

March 12--British are pressing on toward Lille; they gain near Armentières, occupy Epinette, and advance toward La Bassée; Germans are intrenched in Aubers; the new drive is expected by Allies to prevent Germans in the west from sending reinforcements to the east.

Our billeting area included several keeps or strong points--L'Epinette, le Touret, and others--for which we found caretakers, little thinking, as we stocked them with reserve rations, that the Boche would eventually eat our "Bully," and it would fall to our lot in three years time to drive him from these very positions.

Here, and on the Rue de L'Epinette, the enemy was active with snipers and trench mortars--in the centre thing's were very quiet.

First, on the extreme right, an "A" Company patrol tried to reconnoitre the Epinette East Post by night.