CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

MARSHAL FOCH RECEIVES HIS BATON CEREMONY AT HEADQUARTERS Paris, August 25. President Poincare, accompanied' by M. Olemenceau, visited General Petain's headquarters and decorated him with the Military] Medal. Subsequently he visited General Poch at Headquarters and presented him with a marshal's baton in the presence of the Allies' military representatives. President Poincare, in his speech, said: "By wise successive operations, combined with surprise, the enemy has been defeated on'the Marne, the Aisne, the Avro,.tho Somme, and the Oise. You have broken the enemy's offensive, disconcerted his plans, exhausted his reserves, captured en masse bis men, guns, machine-guns, and munitions. Glory to you, Monsieur le Marechal, and all the armies you' command."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANZAC SPOILS IN PARIS GREAT ENTHUSIASM OF THE . POPULACE. Paris, August 25. Tha Australians captured on tho Somme an eloven-iueh gun, having a range of nineteen miles. The gun. is of a recent model, and was intondod for the bombardment of Amiens. It was sent to Paris to be exhibited, and was placed in tho Champ do Mars. The trophy evoked enthusiasm among many thousands of Parisians. This was heightened later by the news of' the Australians' great success in capturing Cray and the-New Zealanders' splendid achievement north-west of the outskirts of Bapaume, coupled with the British victory at Thispval and the surprisingly rapid advances at many points along the whole battlefront. Tho Australians on Friday captured eight hundred prisoners, including thirty-two officers, and British Guardsmen took the same number of prisoners, after a hand-to-hand struggle in which they had all their own way.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SIGNIFICANT POINT ABOUT/ENEMY'S CASUALTIES Zurich, August 20. The German newspapers sinoe July have been unusually full of announcements of killed in action. The most remarkable feature is the revelation of the large number of men over forty killed in the region of tho Marne and east of Reims, and side by side with them many younger men figured in thoso notices, which repeatedly recorded moro than three years of faithful service. Tho fact suggests that Germany utilised in her disastrous offensive many men over forty, with young men who were previously employed in auxiliary services outsido tho war zonc.-rAus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ECHO OF THE BLACK DAYS TWO ALLIED GENERALS COURTMAIt'LTALLED. Washington, August 23. A member of the Houso of Representatives asserts that only two Allied generals were cowt-martialled as the result of tho Allied retreat before the German drive to the Marne. Another general committed suicide. Tho Americans hold on at Belleau Wood against tho Huns, otherwise Paris was certain to have fallen. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable As3n.