STRENUOUS FIGHTING.

Grey River Argus, 4 October 1918, Page 3

STRENUOUS FIGHTING.

ENEMY LOSE HEAVILY,

LONDON, Oeinber 2

Correspondents point out that tho heavy rains have p.onvnrtnd tl-.a Belgian battlefield into a quagmire. Our vrovips, during a remarkably successiul advance, Wailed through mud waist high., i

The Belgians displayed extraordinary spirit when they learned that tho 100 th Regiment of Saxons, who were the perpetrators of the Dinant outrages were opposed 9r> them. Tlie principal haul of guns and prisoners was secured at Houlthulst Wood. Anticipating a big capture of guns, additional gun crews accompanied the advance and promptly turned the weapons on the retreating 'troops.

It is reported that . 500 Germans, who had surrendered,.; bbegatn t shooting the Belgians in the back. They paid dearly for their treachery, for none reached the prisoners' cages.

The German casualties are heavy. The German dead outnumbered ours four-rifhld. In places the French, have :eachcd the Aisuc Canal.