ENEMY RETREAT EXPECTED IN FLANDERS

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13981, 17 November 1917, Page 6

ENEMY RETREAT EXPECTED IN FLANDERS

i SMASHING GERMANY'S HUMAN RESOURCES.

NINETY-ONE DIVISIONS EXHAUSTED IN HOPELESS

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< (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) JF :,P ""* ■ LONDON, November 15. , Eeuter's Headquarters correspondent, on the "Western Front re- ' ports that Prince Repprecht lias exhausted ninety-one divisions in defending Passchendaele ridge, and despite this terrific wastage, he doubts his ability to retain his hold on the northern edge. A captured German officer states that the German High Command fears that .the Germans will be forced to fall back several miles, and the German newspapers are preparing the public for the move.CCarp r tured-documents prove that Marshal von Hindenburg attached greater importance to the Flanders front-than to the'Somme re- ' treat. The lateral railways northward of Boulers are already useless. The total divisions knocked out by the Franco-British this year exceed 300. Germany's waning man-power is proved by the calling up of the 1920 class. ."-... Sir Douglas Haig reports: We drove off raiders near, Poldershoek Wood, northward of Menin Road, and northward of Bixschoote. ' GERMAN ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY ACTIVITY IN YPRES SECTOR. ■/SEVERAL POWERFUL ATTACKS •': SMASHED. ; '... : ■-,-:'.,. (Australian and Reuter). Received November 16, at 8.35 p.m.. ■. • _ , , LONDON, November 15? '_ .".Sir Douglas* Haig reports: Early this morning the enemy . heavily bombarded our positions northward of the'Menin road. His infantry shortly afterwards attempted* to'.-advancei Our fire successfully repulsed the attack. Another party,' which - en- , deavoured to approach from the north-east of.' Passchendaele, was also driven off. Hostile artillery is again showing great activity " ;: in the neighbourhood of Passchendaele.' l . '.''*'■ i

BRISK FIGHTING DEVELOPING AGAINST, AMERICANS. . CASUALTIES SUFFERED IN RECENT BOJIBAEMENT. (Austrnliiiti mid Xciv Zoiilund Gnliln Associntion.) *S ' \ • \ , , Received November 16, at 5.5 p.m. • , - ~./."■ WASHINGTON,/November llj; ■ i)osr| >a t chfts; f fi>n 1 Fj'iincc state I hat, in'.-tli.' rfrwd boilibardini'iitsGerman shells killed ajticl wounded a-few more Americans'-in Hie ■Frcucli lines tliey were holding. Brisk fighting is now developing., s , ■ _ ■■