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Instructions regarding War Diaries and Intelligence
Summaries are contained in F.S. Regs. Part II.
and the Staff Manual respectively. Title Pages
will be prepared in manuscript.

WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
(Erase heading not required.)

Army Form C. 2118.

Page 24

38th Canadians

Original Confidential
War Diary Month April 1917

Place -- Date -- Hour -- Summary of Events and Information Remarks and references to Appendices 25

Front Line 1917 Ap. 25 cont
panies of three Platoons each, with three Lewis Machine
Guns. The Battalion headquarters are at S.12.c.2.2 1/4 RBO'S

do 26 During the past 24 hours, the enemy artillery acitvity was
considerably below that of the previous day. During the
night practically no part of our area reaceived attention
except the Lens-Arras Road, with a little shrapnel broken
over the second line. The Lens-Arras Road and the road
marking our left flank and Givenchy were shelled
intermittently this forenoon, mostly 5.9.s & 4.2.s. Enemy
retaliation to our barrage at 2 o'clock this afternoon
was decidedly slow in starting & was not heavy nor
long sustained. Some fire was directed on our front
and support lines and a little overhead shrapnel in
the vicinity of Battalion Headquarters. During the
night, reconnoitring patrols patrolled forward from
our front line a distance approximately of 400 yards,
reaching the outposts of Lacollette and the line of wire
in front of enemy position. None of the enmy were
encountered or seen, neither was any movment ob-
served. Two enemy machine guns, however, were ac-
tive intermittently on our front, one from the left &

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