MOST MEMORABLE BATTLE OF THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 207, 30 August 1918, Page 5

MOST MEMORABLE BATTLE OF THE WAR.

GERMANS DISTORT AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY ORDER. Received 2.1-"i p.m.) LOXDOX, August 2D. General Uonasli. in an order of the day to the Australian troops on the eve of the battle, said: "To-morrow all Australian divisions engage in the largest and most important battle ever undertaken by an Australian force. "What you so brilliantly executed in the past four months is but a prelude to this greatest culminating effort. Owing to completeness of our plans and the dispositions and magnitude of the operation?, the depth to which we intend overrunning the enemy's position, this battle will lie one of the most memorable of the whole war. There is no doiibt the capture of our objectives will inflict blows that will make the enemy stagger and bring the end appreciably nearer. The Germans secured a copy of this order from the body of a dead Australian, and published it widely alter changing and corrupting the text, and claiming it was proof of the unparalleled efforts made to break the whole German army and'linish the war, thus basing their claim to victory on a perverted statement.—l Tinted Service.)