MR GIBBS ON THE PUSH,
GETTING- THROUGH BE AUREVOIK LINE. MANY PRISONERS. (Rec. October 5, 4.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. Mr Philip Gibbs, reporting on Friday's operations, states: The chief, fighting this morning southward of Cambrai was When the "Anglo-Austral-'iriiis attacked strongly a ..defensive eremy line,: forming part of the Beaiire-voir-Masniers line. Before this bit of line were' a number | of villages, strongly fortified for macliine-gun defence. It was a terrible position to attack,- and is one not easy held. The British took Sequehart for the ihird time, capturing the garrison, and t) ey further advanced and prisbne'red two thousand ;beyond Vegies. i ; The Australians experienced 'bard fi^hf ing in the village of Wianeourt. We have taken prisoners niirhbering at ' least three thousand to-dak '■
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Grey River Argus, 7 October 1918, Page 3
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