WESTERN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6897, 10 August 1917, Page 3

WESTERN.

TREMENDOUS BLOW DEALT BY BRITISH.

Germans Adroit Defeat in Flanders Battle. The Times Rec Aug 9, 5 15 p in London, Aug 8 ' Tbe German press describes the Flauders battle as a tremendous and most brutal British blow, in which science assisted mauy devices and wc«.pons. - George Querl, correspondent ot the Berliner Tageblatt, while declaring that the Germans can breathe Again warns the. nation that this is merely the first singe oi the battlo, though the firsfc savage blow was parried. Xha British artillery in the last push imposed uncanny tension on the German infantry. The enemy used land dreadnoughts and winged infantry, and advanced another stage, i?earin» down the German trench fighter* infantry followed and broke ov'ev the Gorman rauks like a malicious storm .making pathways , and even broad gaps, whereupon the battle reached the utmost sheer banian achievement. The German will to battle awoke in embittered ~.%iogs, at whose door death had been 'knocKingday by day and night by , night in man to man fighting. Millions of guas ios*i their loud voices, and the battle became a. matter of strength and nerve. The infantry realising that they were defending 'the country's power to the fullest, lUc the weapon tha TJ boats, resolved v-to block the way at the sacrifice of life. By evening the enemy had won apaae success, and captured trenches, guns, and piisoneis He mastered Bixschoote but had nob achieved his alia, and lay bleeding against the wall oyer which he hoped to climb. Gwmany's Fate Being Decide i - in Flanders. Australian and N Z Cable Assoc. Rec Aug 9, 9 10 a m Paris, Aug 8 fil. Marcel Hutin, writing in the Echo de Paris, states that the Germans have reorganised their troops lathe rear of the Flauders front, and . have< accumulated more heavy batteries to meet the prospect of renewed big fighting. Advices from Zurich state that the Yossiscbe Zeituug says that Germany's fate is being decided in Flanders. An English base there Would enable enemy air squadrons to annihilate our industrial basin and drive, Germany completely from the was".' German industry is completely at their mercy. We must hold our , positions between the sea aud Lys, or -we will lose the war.