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HIGH OFFICIAL DISMISSED. ("The Times.") LONDON, September 29. Amsterdam advices state that the German Deputy Minister for War, General yon Jaudel, has been dismissed. DREAR, BLACKENED DESERT. WORK OF 4,000 GUNS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, September 23. The "Times" correspondent at British Headquarters on the western front •writes:—"The net result of the day's fighting in the Gueudecourt area was the sweeping out of the Germans from their fortified positions, and an advance of a mile to a point 1,000 yards east of the carrying two strongly-held trench lines and numerous powerful positions. "Meanwhile, towards the right, the French carried Kanconrt and Fregicourt. and the open country beyond. The Germans threw in a new army corps brought from the south. "The British, French, and German guns at the Somme front now probably number 4,000. The whole countryside is blasted and blackened. Woods "and villages have disappeared, and mostly it remains a grey area of flattened stone, with a few forlorn and battered wrecks of houses remaining. The smallest objects, such as a shattered aeroplane or a broken gun. is conspicuous for miles." "The bombardment before the advance was broken before midday. A thousand guns had been roaring simultaneously against the whole German line, kicking un a storm of dust and smoke, and shells were whining, shrieking, and bursting everywhere. The French 7;Ts on the right flickered for miles like prolonged forked lightning. "The spectator does not know of the progress of the battle. He only sees a continuous smoke-bank and the bursting shells. The replies vary in intensity at different points, showing which the Germans consider most vital in their defence." GERMANS FEAR AIR SERVICE. LONDON, September 25. An Australian doctor, who has returned from the western front, relates that prisoners, in their conversations, indic__te that the ho_xi_>__ii___. of t___.____.t__s of aerial men who have been burned to death and also Ihe pcx-Os of submarine crews axe di____-noos_y affecting tire German morale, and rendering it increasingly difficult to recruit suitable personadL fo_-s_2__p___x__i__.