OVERSEA TROOPS EASILY SHATTER FIRST RESISTANCE.
SUPERB DASH. OF CANADIANS CARRIES OBJECTIVES. United Service. LONDON. Aug. 11.
Mr. Keith Murdoch, the Australian correspondent, writing from Australian headquarters, says that the surprise of the Germans was so complete that the fighting of the Australians has so far been comparatively easy. Thousands of men have not used a weapon, but simply walked forward through the Mattered thin crust of the defences to their objectives eight miles away, carrying iron rations and sufficient ammunition for several days. They secured village after village, and passed deep into German territory. The Canadians, whoso overflowing battalions were at the top of their form, broke the enemy crust like thin ice, and then swept forward. Large bodies of cavalry secured the furthermost objectives. An examination of prisoners and the dead show that the Australians alone wiped out three divisions of Westphalians, reserve Prussian Guards, and mixed East Prussian and Saxon and Prussian divisions. The booty was unlimited. The prisoners include battalion and regimental commanders.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 13 August 1918, Page 5
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