DEPLETION OF ENEMY'S RESERVE
FLIGHT OF THE "LIONS OF CAMBRAI"
(eedtee's telegbam.) (Received September 16, 8.30 a.m.) # ' - LONDON, 15th September. Reuters correspondent at British 1 Headquarters gives instances of the. proof of the depletion of the German^ Reserve Divisions. Prisoners admit thatdisaffection and indiscipline is growing alarmingly, and that desertions are increasing. A battalion of the 46th Infantry Regiment, which gained the name.;, of "The Lions of Cambrai," broke during our recent advance at Sauterre, and fled to Nesle, indulged in looting, and straggled away. A captured map shows that an attack against the front of our First Army was' being organised when Foch's stroke upset the schemes.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1918, Page 7
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