THE AUSTRALIANS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 4

THE AUSTRALIANS.

MORE SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. (Commonwealth Correspondent.) LONDON, March 18. The Victorians last night raided the enemy lines east of Messines m two places. The larger raid, on the right, was near the scene of the windmill fight put up by the South Australians and Q.ueenslanders on July 31 last year. Here the Victorians entered the German trenches on each side of the road. They found the garrison m some strength, and they killed at least a dozen Germans m the trenches and several more outside between the front and support lines. The loft assaulting party had an easy path. The Germans apparently were fascinated with terror, crawling on their hands and knees backwards from the Australians like panic-stricken calves. They did not obey or reply to the shonted orders *of "Surrender." The raiders returned with three prisoners. One subsequently died from wounds. ■ • The left raiders, farther north of the smaller party, attacked a German dugout behind a wire entanglement which Avas difficult to penetrate. A few raideVs crawled through a weak place, exposed to view by the brilliant illumination from one of their own bursting shrapnel shells. The members of the ga-rrison were brought back prisoners. CVur casualties m the night raid were insignificant. . ■ i The feature of each enterprise was the absence of any resistance whatever' on the part of the garrisons ; also the ma-oh'ne-gun fire m the rear was apparently completely subdned by our artillery. !£he enemy artillery fire was feeble and ineffective.