NEW ZEALANDERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10073, 11 September 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS

STILL isHISTORY DETAILS OF THEIR DAILY DOINGS. (From Captain Malcolm Ross, Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces-in -the Field.) ■ September 6. Starting from their outpost positions, won as the result of yesterday’s advance, the New' Zealanders to-day continued their forward march. Tins morning they mopped up numbers of Germans remaining: in shell-holes in front of last night’s objective, and took fifty ;more prisoners.. Patrols then pushed on south of, Havrincourt Wood to Metzen Centre village. Havnncourt Wood, where we. expected stilt fighting, .was evacuated by the enemy. September 7. , To-day the : New - Zealanders have continued their advance east of Havrincourt Wood and the village of Meteen Coutre, and have pushed patrols right into Gougeaucourt Wood, which the enemy has out . down for timber, We '. are ■ well beyond the Canal du, Nord, which we crossed where it is tunnelled. To the south-wost the enemy has blown up the railway, and away in the north-east we can see fires burning in Ribecourt, Flosquaires, and Epinoy. We are moving almost parallel, to the Hindenburg line. Rut what is of more, importance than ground gained is the undoubted deterioration, of the enemy moral. Some prisoners who were captured yesterday accused another unit of running away, pnd yet another lot complained that the troops, detailed to relieve them did pot come up. There is increasing re- . iuctance to fight to a finish, and even : officers pow admit that Germany carsnot. win, and that, generally, they are Very- tired; ,qf... the. war... ftne officer Stated; that -we-were, im possession, of ~ Kemmel, and when told we got it without fighting was;, more . scornful, still. The: enemy has blown..great craters in the-'roads near Metz. A soda-water - plant captured is now ready-to supply ; two“.of-our divisions, and thousands of bdttlesful liav.e been discovered. Two German • tanks lie stranded in the ground. - New.Zealanders , have won. (One wood we occupied contained almost luxurious headquarters undestroyed. The; enemy had evidently settled therefor the winter.' There were numerous huts' with excellent beds, and almost each had a safe dugout to which the Occupants could retire in case of shelling. ■ Flowers were growing in windowhexes. Two days ago German gun-' jners, began;: to ' savagely ' .shell! this • camp,' and we found his dugouts use-, jful. ; One, hut.wae set. afire, and soma Plea climbing to the -roof pluckily beat: put : the-.fire’s- while tlie'shelling con-' ftinupd; Returning, our car raced"; through a. barrage of five-nines, splint- - ,era jo£.which’ pierced .puf .njud-guards. Everything goes to show that the enemy is greatly annoyed, though power-: Joss to stsiy -our advance., He is resist- ’ ing • with' machine-guns and fire from the south; end .’of Gouzeahcqurt Wood and Treacault ,Ridge.; •

GERMANY IMPORTANT POLITICAL CHANGE? ; impending, ’ ■ _ Renter’# TeJssra mg. I : (Received, September 11, t X. 16 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. 1 A telegram from Gopenhagen states : That, owing to the increasing nervousness among the German people, important political changes are impending, including the resignation of von Hertling, German Chancellor. ■ The ‘‘Vos- * sischo -Zeitung-” ; mentions Dr-' Solfe, Herr Erzberger, and Herr Schildmapn as possible’ successors, , The. paper adds that there is no doubt the Austrian Cabinet ; will shortly resign.