WATER-SODDEN FLANDERS AREA NOW LEFT BEHIND.
BATTLE BEING FOUGHT ON FAIRLY FIRM GROUND. PRISONERS ADMIT EXPECfATION OF AN ARMISTICE. By Telegraph— Association—Copyright. Times. (Received 7.40 p.m.) • LONDON, Oct. IS. Mr. H. Perry Robinson writes: The Anglo-Belgian advance in Flanders has swept over its objectives everywhere. The advance takes us beyond the quagmire region, and we are now on fairly firm ground. . Many prisoners declare that the talk of an armistice induced them to surrender. One officer explained his' spic and span attire by saying, "I have my peace clothes on." . ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16983, 17 October 1918, Page 5
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