14,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 5

14,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

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A RETREAT ON FLANDERS FRONT

(by telegraph.—united press association.—copyright.)

(AUSTKALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received August 10, 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 9th 'August. The British" and French advance has reached a maximum depth of eleven miles. The British have reached the Framerville-Lihons line. The French have taken Fresnoy (seven miles east of Moreuil).

The British cavalry are within a mile of Chaulnes (35 miles south-east of Amiens).

The .Germans are blowing up ammunition dumps. 'Allied airmen have blown up bridges over the Somme.

The French troops north-west of Montdidier advanced four miles and captured three thousand prisoners.

French military opinion is satisfied that the Germans must cv acuate Montdidier.

The Australians are fighting* north of the Somme. The Canadians have captured Beaiifort.

The British have taken fourteen thousand prisoners. The majority were captured by the Australians and Canadians. The Canadian cavalry surrounded a large force of Germans. It is reported that a German divisional general is included among those captured. Two hundred guns were also taken. The British casualties are only nine thousand.

(Receixed August 10, 8.50 a.m.) „ ....... .... LONDON, 9th 'August ■The Germans are retreating on the Flanders front.

. NEW TORE, 9th' August

TEe Germans are evacuating positions in the Lys valley in Flanders. ; •