AMERICAN RAIDERS.
MATCH FOR THE GERMANS. | LONDON. Sept 11 The Times correspondent at American headquarters reports :— German raiders south of Verdun are finding the Americans everywhere ready to retaliate with smashing effect. A large-scale raid near Colmar, accompanied by heavy shelling and flame throwing, developed, into fierce grenade, bayonet, and rifle fighting. The enemy ultimately broke and bolted, dropping. their ; flame-throwers, rifles, and supplies. •'-., • Prisoners from Alsace say that the German soldiers are .eagerly reading the Allies' pamphlets dropped in the trenches. Their commanders reward those who surrender, the pamphlets. The enemy's pronounced to? ofJbe; tanks is reflected in .his great hurry ■to flood the country around St. Quen'tin and Cambrel ** I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 8
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