THE AUSTRALIANS.

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 7

THE AUSTRALIANS.

NO PEACE FOR THE GERMANS

THE GALLANT ATTACK AT MOR

LANCOURT.

(Received June 13, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 12th June.

Mr. Philip Gibbs writes: The Australians do not leave the enemy in peace. The attack the Australians mode in the small hours of last night was similar in operation and success to their recent attack at Strazeele. Their latest exploit wae beween Morlancourt and Sailly-le-Sec, beyond Amier.B. The prisoners are a good crowd of men. Already 200 have passed back, including a. good many young fellows of tho 1919 claaa. " The attack surprised them. '-When the bombardment b<»ian they expected to have time to rea^i their machine-guns. The moment the barrage lifted a German officer shouted "Take up machine-gun positions," but they saw the Australians were on them, and knew their fate was sealed. Th,e battalions consisted of Prussians and Wurtembergers, and apparently reserves were sent up from the south side of the Somme in* readiness in the event of the Australian attack spreading. The atta-ck included a saddle overlooking Morlancourt and Sailly Daurette. The Australians dafihed forward and captured all this ground with their usual spirit. The Australians regard these adventures as a sort of fierce sport, involving tho risk of death, which only tunes them up to more intense vitality. Tho Australians fight with science as ■well as spirit, because courage alone without the severest training and disciplined action would certainly lead to failure. There must be absolute harmony throughout, like the different instruments in an orchestra. It was certainly an orchestra of death for the Germans suffered many losses from the hand-grenades in the close fighting after tho Australians entered the trenches. The prisoners were glad to escape, and a. German officer admitted that they had no chance after the Australians started.