THE BRITISH VICTORY
FAR-REACHING IMPORTANCE NO FEARS FOR THE WINTER TRENCHES FREE FROM WATER GERMANS' DESPERATE COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES
JWoivod this .lay nt !).4fi ruinM, "Mareol Hulin savs that the positions Unit the British raptured are so important that the enemy are incessanly aliasing, but their attempts will, powerful conlingenls were sensationally defeated. The position occupied by the British is sue), that they can, if need be, wait the coming of spring and pass the winter without havinrr their feet in water, which will be the lot ol the Germans in the positions whereto they retreated. If is significant that the eighteen-year-old Germans are unable to stand their ground, whilst tl.eir officers, instead ot being with the men. are kept in the rearThis accounts for the few officers made prisoners. Private advices from Havre state that Antwerp is crowded with troops, who are billeted on the inhabitants.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1917, Page 5
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