FLANDERS CAINS.
DIFFICULTIES OF COMMUNICATION. THROUGH SEAS OF, fVIUD. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.?. Cable Association. \ LONDON, October 7. (Received October 8, at 1.20 p.m.) Mr Murdoch writes from Headquarters: Heavy fighting continues, but the British everywhere have solidified their.positions and await counter-attacks with confidence.' Rnin has changed the battlefield into a vast sea- of muddy ponds, bringing sore trouble to both sides, especially ours, owing to the difi :ulty of maintaining communication over thrw miles of tho conquered shell-hole zone.
Our artillery organisation has reached such perfection that numerous heavy batteries Are at the identical moment on a chosen locality with an awful, demoralising, and death-dealing effect. The Germans generally fought gamely, put the attackers' dash, on top of the barrage, prevented, in most cases, tho enemy machine gunners from getting their guns from the redoubts in tame to fight them. As a result of their preparation for an attack many thousand Germans wero caught in.trenches and shell holes, and remained there throughout tho barrage. The survivors fought to the end.
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Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 4
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