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WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE Summary
(Erase heading not required.)
Army Form C. 2118.
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.

Page 37
Original Confidential
38th Canadians War Diary Month May 1917

Place Date Hour Summary of Events and Information 38 Remarks and
references to Appendices

Vimy 1917 May 27 cont.
area from S. 6. d. 7. 9 to S. 6. d. q. 1. This same area was
shelledintermittently during the night. Our right Co.
frontage was bombarded between Eleven and twelve
o clock last night with light shells, but no casual-
ties nor damage to trenches. The IENS-ARRAS
Road was heavily shelled throughout the night.
Otherwise, enemy activity has been below normal.
The activity of their Trench Mortars was very much
below that of the two preceding nights. Their snipers
showed very little activity. Their maching guns
devoted themselves to sweeping the IENS-ARRAS
road and carrying on an indirect fire on our back
areas. Our A. A. guns drove back several hostile
aeroplanes which crossed our lines for a short dis-
tance. An enemy plane seen today has a circle
painted around the black crosses on the wings which
renders quick identification difficult.
For the past three days a large percentage of our trench
garrison have fired at least ten rounds from their
rifles during the day, directed on any point to
their front which might conceal the enemy. Every

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