GERMAN REPORT TACITLY ADMITS LOSS OF ZONNEBEKE

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

GERMAN REPORT TACITLY ADMITS LOSS OF ZONNEBEKE

WAR OFFICE SHOWS DECEPTION OF STATEMENT. OBJECTIVES SET GAINED WITHOUT EXCEPTION. Ad,,,i,v p., Wireless. (Received 9 p») . LONDON Sept. 37. A German official report states: The battle in Flanders has con- ' tinned without interruption all day and all night. At least 12 enemy divisions, often accompanied by tanks, advanced between Mangelaares, north-east of Bixschoote, and Hollebeke, four miles south-east of Ypres. We repulsed repeated assaults astride the I aneeir.arck road. The enemy penetrated to a depth of one mile, between St Julien and the Menin-Ypres road- There has been stubborn lighting at Zonnebeke and Gheluvelt The latter remained in our h-inds Repeated assaults further to the south broke down. ' Aurtrdhß «d NZ. and Router. (Reed. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Th" War Offic- points out that the German communique states we gamed'less territory on September 26 than on September 20. ' This is perfectly true, but the objectives set were smaller. All our this is pence .> , addg thafc Gcneral * objectives have been gained. me v i : von Ludendorff. the German Chief of Staff in purposely misleading ' phrases describes the fighting near Zonnebeke and Gheluvelt He ■t t state that the Germans lost Zonnebeke, and emphasises I Pretention of Gheluvelt, which was outside the British objectives.