HEAVY GERMAN DEFENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16968, 30 September 1918, Page 5

HEAVY GERMAN DEFENCES.

STRONG SUCCESSIVE LINES. KEY POSITION CARRIED. (Received 1.30 a.m.) B€U te r . LONDON. Sept. 28. '■■',■■' Reuter's correspondent at American ..; headquarters, writing on the evening of §*■. the 27th, says: We have taken what may v;, be considered the Hindenburg line, but, 1 behind it, is a string of trenches called r v . the Hagenstelling, and, behind that and % joined to it, are the defensive works of ' the Volkerstelling, which connects a series of'strong places. All these must be passed I .; before the Grunhildestelling, which is the K'line on which the German main reliance ...; { is placed, can be reached. ;• : Montfaucon is the key to the whole of - this front. It formed a kind of hinge, JS where the Volkerstelling was joined to Hagenstelling, to enable the German front §|p), swing some 90 degrees from the south ft; ito prevent any successful exit from Mont- '•-• fiacon Wood in front of it. ife psg' (Received 1.30 a.m.) Timos- LONDON, Sept. 28. .'",; The correspondent of the Times at .;;'• American headquarters, says :Gene-■■il'-jA Pershing personally directed the American attack. His men, realising the ■ESgnitude of the fight, went in like wilo • rats, Aeroplanes advanced in dense for- =: nation, many flying low owing to the mist.