HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGE A FRENCH KOEPENICK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 3

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGE

A FRENCH KOEPENICK.

Tlie High Commissioner reports: — liONDOK, Aug. 19. 10.10 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig imports: — In the Merville sector oiu- advance continued, considerable progress being made on a front of 10y000 yards. We have entered Merville. LONODN, Aug. 20, 1.5 __...i. French official: We continued to progress between the rivers Matz and Oise, despite the stubborn resistance of the enemy. We captured Fresnieres, reached the western outskirts of Lassigny, and debouched through Biescourt Wood. We <;aptured Pimpnez and reached faouth of Dreslincourt. Jibrth of the Aisiie, completing our success between Carle pont and Fontenoy, we captured Morsain.

Dressed in a sergeant's uniform, a colonial soldier named Benezera went to a military camp at Marseilles at 2 a.m., called out the guard, ordered reveille to be sounded, and assembled' 242 young colonial soldiers with their luggage to be entrained at onoe. AJI the luggage was piled iii a motor car he had brought •with him, and the men were marched off to the railwa-y station, but on the way the sergeant and the luggage-car disappeared. When the detachment arrived at the station without its leader the commissary, having no orders for a train, sent an officer back to camp with the men and opened an inquiry. Tho impostor and his accomplices were quickly discovered, and are now awaiting trial.