GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF ANY ARMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10471, 8 September 1916, Page 5

GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF ANY ARMY.

I ENORMOUS IMPORTANCE OF | LATEST VICTORY. (I/ondon 'Times Telegrams.) Received September 8, 9.30 a.in. LONDON, Sept. 7. The Times’ correspondent with Head quarters leporls that since the German selected their main second line on the ridgi between the Somme and Mouquej, fain they spared no effort to render it ini prog liable. He believes filltire militarists wil regard its capture as the greatest achieve nienf. of any army. I (United Service.) LONDON, Sept. 7. i The Berliner Tageblatt angrily declare* that (lie Franco-British methods are not warfare, but butchery. Alter the trenches are bat tered by bombardment the infant r\ advance to work which is a suitable mission for butchery. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received September 8, 8,55 a.in. _ LONDON. Sept. 7. I Philip Gibbs, stressing the importance of the gains since Sunday, says: —“Now that we have gained the crest, even if (he offen- ( sive halted to day which it will not. our men’s winter position will he enormously superior to the enemy’s. Further, we Rave straightened an awkward salient. If we take (Tinchv and Tliiepva) we will be well placed,” 1 (Reuter’s Telegram.) j Received September 8 11.45 a.m. PARTS, Sept. ?, i The French advance has almost enclosed Oh a nines. Since July Ist, twenfv-nine French localities have been freed by the Anglo-French.