OVERWHELMED.
VAUQUOIS UNDERGROUND SYSTEM.
TERRIFIC ASSAULTS,
(Received 9.35 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27
Mr N. D. Baker, War Secretary, witnessed the start of the American offensive west of Verdun.
After the enemy had been bombarded with high explosives and gas the tanks advanced, smashing the wire entanglements and destroying machine-gun nests. Airmen swooping over the enemy trenches prevented him discovering what was impending.
Already the Americans have captured Malancourt, Montfaucon, Cuccy, and other points. The German opposition is strengthening, as new divisions are arriving. A gas attack overwhelmed Vauquois, where forty miles of subterranean passages are known to exist. At first the town was flooded with gas clouds and then surrounded by a circle of artillery fire.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 28 September 1918, Page 3
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