FIELD DAY FOR THE CARS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1918, Page 8

FIELD DAY FOR THE CARS

ADVENTURES IN THE GERMAN

REAR,

(AUSTftALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received August 12; 1 p.m.)

LONDON, 11th August,

Mr. Gordon Gilmour (Australian Press Association correspondent), writing on Friday evening., says : Since Genera' Foch countered the Crown Prince at Reims the morale of all tho Entente troops received such a stimulus that it became certain that the initiative in other parts of the front would not be allowed to remain with the enemy, and they are now fighting-with much impetuosity. , Referring to the Australian attack, Mr. Gilmour says ; They went over in two waves, one going through the other, thus expediting the unusually deep advance. Tanks accompanied tho troops, who. after a four minutes bombardment, quickly broke the piecrust of the first German defence system land had all their own way behind it.

A feature of the Australian sector was the advance of the armoured motor cars, whose officers had a field day. Bowling along to the eastward, they found trees down across the road, and requisitioned a tank to haul them off.

The armoured cars reached a certain village and found the enemy transport ready to move back. They fixed three thousand rounds into them, causing complete confusion. The cars.had. lively moments in other villages, where they tackled a collection of steam wagons, causing an impassable Talock. They encountered a German gun, which blew the wheels ofi one car and damaged three others, which, however, escaped. Two cars penetrated the main street of a small town, and fired into billets where the German troops were lunching. The cars had quite a. tattle with the Germans in the rest billets and old trenches, and killed many. One car penetrated beyond Lafla-que, where it secured many prisoners' round a big dump. '