WHOLE ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS IN BELGIUM MENACED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16970, 2 October 1918, Page 8

WHOLE ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS IN BELGIUM MENACED

■ ALLIED ADVANCE BEACHES EXTREME DEPTH OF 8 MILES MORE GAINS THAN FROM JUNE TO NOVEMBER LAST YEAR. mat#*}*.'- -/.A i, -"Jr.-i an* N.Z. ' <SweWsa .U5 p ' m ' } , < ' LONDON, Sept. 80. _ N - 1 The British and Belgian advance in Zanders, on a front of 23 & " ' miles, has now reached a general depth of five, miles, though it is ; . eight inilea at the sharpest point. 'In . two dayß we have gained twice the ground taken in the Messines and Passchendaelo offensives from June to November last year. This : suggests some insufficiency of fighting power in the German Army, : ; The advance is a serious menace to the whole system of communications affecting the BelgiaA coast. The railway between Roulers and V Menin is the main connection along the Lille-Ostend front.' This is now useless. Four, railways and 'eight' main roads meet at Boulers, kid the swampy ground makes the building $ fresh* military roada impossible. | | Aufiriliao And K.Z.'J- | ? * (Received 7.45 tun.) ' i ) - THE HAGUE, Sept.' 80, . S|| King Albert commands the British and Belgians in Flanders, and controls the Second Army on 83 miles of the front.