ENEMY'S HURRIED RETIREMENT FREES VILLAGERS.
PITCHED BATTLE BEING AVOIDED TO SAVE FLANDERS.
Australian and N.Z. and Renter
LONDON, Got, 11.
Keuter's correspondent at British headquarters, writing on the evening of the 10th, says: The enemy retirement was so hurried that even civilians were not removed from the captured villages. The tendency of our progress is parallel to (the Le Cateau road. Thus we are elongating the salient eastwards without corresponding extension northwards. I believe this is strategically deliberate, and should be considered in conjunction with the situation around Lille. We are apparently avoiding a pitched battle at Lille, which would give the Germans an -excuse for wantonly devastating the great manufacturing district of Flanders. Sodden ground is restricting our movements, but the enemy is in such an uncomfortable plight in the clay plains that he will probably not attempt to remain in his present positions long.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16980, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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