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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 25

38th Canadians

Original Confidential

War Diary Month April 1917

Place -- Date -- Hour -- Summary of Events and Information Remarks and references to Appendices 26

Front Line 1917 Ap. 26 cont
the other from the right. These guns fired on sections
of our front at intervals, but their exact locations
could not be determined as no flashes could be seen.
In decided contrast with the previous night, practically
no enemy Very Lights were used in our front line last
night. At intervals these light signals were fired, but all
from one point in our front, a little from the right
of Lacollette. More lights were used in front of Bat-
talions on our right and left, but these were being
fired further back than the previous night. Fires
of considerable proportions burned all night in Avion,
Elevidid?, Leauvendete, while one fire was burning in
Lacollette. As many as twelve fires were seen burning
in this area. The enemy attitude throughout the
night was most decidedly quiet, save intermittent
shelling on the Arras-Lens road. Our front line,
known as the outpost line, was consolidated last
night, everything being now connected up by a trench
of no less than four feet deep at any point, traversed
and receed? The patrols employed during the

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