AUSTRALIAN PROGRESS SOUTH OF SOMME.

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

AUSTRALIAN PROGRESS SOUTH OF SOMME.

FOUR VILLAGES SOUTH-WEST OF-PERONNE CLEARED. (Received 1 l.:!- r > a.m.) LONDON. August 2SI. The I'niled l're*s correspondent rppnrta tlwt the Australians liiivc taken Kcuilleres, on tin- Somiiii , , four mill's west of Peronnc, Herbeeourt, threu miles south-east, Asscvillers, two miles further (south, ami Bclloy-en-Santcrre, a mile and n-half to tlie south-east. 'J'lipy arc now within three miles of llic Brie Bridge, across the Somme, three miles smith of l'eronne. They an , advancing along the upper hank of tin- Sor-une towards Ham. General Byng has l-iiken (jinrhy. The Canadians, by I>< mi l>lll «r. cleared out Hie famous concrete tunnel running westward nf Uullccourt to the Sensce River. Many Germans were killed and more were taken prisoner.— IA. and N.Z. Cable.) VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT OF FRENCH LUTE. (Received 2.10 p.m.) LONDON. August - JH—4.IT) p.m. An evening Krencli communique report*:- Viuleni bombardmente riuring the night along the S.immp and enemy raids 111 the Lorraine, achieved no result. We made two raids in the Champagne. Calm prevails elsewhere— (A. and N.Z. and Renter.)