"A GREAT DAY FOR THE ENGLISH"
LONDON, 22nd September. Mr. Percival Phillips's account emphasises that the Australians were the centre oi the attack, and had much hard fighting .between the Boulers railway and the Menin-road before they cleared Gloncorse Wood and Nonno Bosehen. The Australians planted the Commonwealth flag on the Anzac Redoubt,, and' drove nearly Walf-way through Polygon Wood. Nearly all theiTjprograinme was fulfilled to time-table. They went over the parapet at 5.40 a.m., amid heavy shell-fire, because distress signals had called all the German batteries into fiction. The barrage caught . some Stretcher-bearers and wounded men. The British victory is even greater than appeared, yesterday.. Six counterattacks were repulsed with exceedingly heavy losses. There is a notable change in Prussian prisoners' attitude. The officers aro polite tnd complimentary. One said: '.'lt is a great day for the English. You gained the greatest victory of the y e ar—far greater than Messines."
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Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 7
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