BRILLIANT WORK BY THE SCOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 158, 4 July 1916, Page 5

BRILLIANT WORK BY THE SCOTS.

BRITISH PROGRESS SLOWER THAN THE FRENCH. GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED WITH GREAT LOSSES VICTORY NOT TOO DEARLY BOUGHT. (Received 11.30 a.m.) ' LONDON. July 3V Paris correspondents eulogise the brilliant dash of the Scottish regiments which General Haig mentioned. They traversed three lines of trenches, entering Montauban. where they slew hundreds with the bayonet. The "Petit Journal" says that the general result of the present offensive is the capture of the first and second lines of the vast area between Montauban and Assevillers. The success is more important because the British captured Mametz and Fricourt. Military critics emphasize the need of continued caution. The Allies must be sparing in lives until a general break through is possible, meanwhile forcing action only where decisive superiority is assured, inflicting the maximum loss on the enemy with the minimum loss to ourselves. M. Marcel Hutin. in the "Echo de Paris." says that the British progress was slower than the French. This was due to difficulties of the ground. The -Allies were engaged in lengthy operations in which there was plenty of -work for the artillery before the attack. It is gratifying that the haul of prisoners, besides the strategic result obtained, was not paid for too dearly. The Germans facing the British multiplied their counter-attacks all day and night, but were sanguinarily repulsed. Altogether the situation is favourable.