GALLANT AND EFFECTIVE WORK OF ARMOURED GARS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 13 August 1918, Page 5

GALLANT AND EFFECTIVE WORK OF ARMOURED GARS.

GERMANS CAUGHT UNAWARES IN BILLETS AND TOWNS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ' LONDON, Aub.lL

Mr. Gordon Gilmour, special correspondent of the Australasian : Press Association, writing on Friday evening, says: Since Foch encountered the Crown Prince at Rheims the moral of all the Entente ' troops has received such a stimulus that it became certain that tho initiative in other parts of the front would not be allowed to remain) with the enemy. The troops are now fighting with , much impetuosity. , Referring to the Australian attack, he says they went over in two waves, one wave going through the other, thus expediting the unusually deep advance. Tanks accompanied the troops, who, after four minutes' bombardment, quickly broke the piecrust of the German defence and had things all their own way behind. .

A feature of the Australian sectors w«*. the advance of armoured - motor-cars, whose officers had a field dav. Bowling along eastward they found trees down across the road, and requisitioned tanks: to haul them off. Armoured cars reaching a certain village found the : enemy transport ready to move back and fired 3000 rounds into them,' v '; causing complete confusion. The cars had lively moments in other villages, where they attacked a collection of steam waggons, causing an impassable block. They encountered a German gun which' blew ' the wheels off one car and damaged three others, which, however,' escaped. Two cars penetrated the main street of a small town, firing into billets where German troops were lunching. Thenars had quite > a battle with Germans in the rest billets and old trenches, and killed many. One car penetrated beyond Laflaque, where it secured many prisoners round a big dump. i.