LATE WAR NEWS
WESTERN FRONT. GERMAN SPIRITS LOW. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 9. 2.20 p.m.) IJOINDO'N, July 8. Mr Percival .Phillips writes : The Germans, evidently worn out by the previous fighting and discouraged by the failure, to receive relief, fell buck from the shell holes and allowed the Australians to occupy them. A grey-haired .Australian officer daringly climbed the roof of the market place and unfurled the French flag. German artillery opened fire, but the dare-devil officer reached the ground safely as a. shell knocked off a corner of the building. The shelling of the flag continued all day, but it was still waxing triumphantly from the battered, masonry. JAPAN AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS. ■(Rec. Jnlv 9. 2.10 p.m.) TJOKIO, July 8. Japan is instituting civil administration in the occupied South Pacific Islands.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 164, 9 July 1918, Page 6
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