FEROCIOUS NATURE OF GERMAN COUNTER-EFFORTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16657, 29 September 1917, Page 7

FEROCIOUS NATURE OF GERMAN COUNTER-EFFORTS

HEAVY TOLL TAKEN DURING FIERCE ATTACKS. Australian and N.Z. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. The correspondent of the United Press emphasises the ferocious nature of the German counter-attacks, which ended fruitlessly. Heavy shelling forced the British to retire slightly immediately northward of Zonnebeke; in consequence of this Zonnebeke railway station was recaptured, but the major portion of Zonnebeke. remains in British hands. The Germans also won the minor local positions of Winzic Farm and Vale House. The British regained portion of these. The British repulsed with heavy slaughter enemy attacks everywhere southward of the Menin Road, except in the regions of Jut Farm and Cameron House, on the southern edge of Polygon Wood. The enemy hotly assaulted the Australians' position southward of the railway, but after heavy losses abandoned the attempts, not gaining an inch. The correspondent pays a tribute to the splendid spirit of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in refusing to surrender, although practically without food or drink for 20 hours. The ground was littered with German corpses when they were relieved. '