GERMAN SIXTH ARMY RETIRING ACROSS LYS PLAIN.
BRITISH ADVANCE REACHES MAXIMUM OF FOUR MILES Australian .and N.Z. CabU Association. .' ,'„ LONDON. Aug. 21. Mr. Percival Phillrgß writes: Covered by temporary belts of wire, the German Sixth Army is still retiring slowly across the Lys (Plain towards Armentieres. We have now advanced a maximum of four miles since the withdrawal, began. The German general most concerned in this operation is our old friend Bernhardi, the war writer and hater of the British. He commands the Fifty-fifth Corps, which ' was badly dented in the Merville salient. The British continue to bite his flanks and disturb his retirement. It must be a bitter blow to him to strip the ground of depots, dumps, railheads, bridges, and other works which he constructed at great cost and sacrifice preparatory to another drive on Hazebrouck and Calais.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16936, 23 August 1918, Page 5
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