GUNS PLAY SMALL PART IN THE FLANDERS BATTLE.
LITTLE RESISTANCE MET IN CERTAIN SECTORS. iußtraliaa and N.Z. Cable Aviation. LONDON, Oct. 15. Mr. Philip Gibbs writes: After the first bombardment there was astonishingly little shell-fire in to-day's Flanders, battle. This quietude strikingly contrasted with the tumult of gun-fire during the battles about this region in 1917. Our wounded men, returning, all brought the same tale that the enemy had put up a fight with machineguns and then surrendered. The chief characteristic of the fighting was the strength with which the enemy held his front line. Some of 'the Germans fought with extreme courage, sometimes rushing out machine-guns through our barrage and getting our men in the open, -but elsewhere they put up poor resistance. One of their officers .remarked:- "What can you expect when an armistice is probable in fro or, Jhree, daysj/ 1 ; . tf .- . _- - ,-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16983, 17 October 1918, Page 5
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