SUMMING UP RESULTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14710, 16 September 1918, Page 5

SUMMING UP RESULTS.

• 150 SQUARE MILES: LTBER'ATED*. • 15,000' Prisoners takei\\" t j (Australian* arili* r>.Z y . Cable' Association.) 1 rfR-eCeived- Sept*. 16; 9;55" a:m')' ,< '. i LONDON, .Sept. 15-(mdrnhig); An A-riifericah. official 1 mfesfeagf-j states s :' .In- ithe-Sti-:Mihifel.*se«tol* i our adduced ' units' maintained enemy's forces and repijl^ed a; couhj'e/-httaelr iii the regiort' "of ""ijlaulMy. *'- '•'*-'■" - We are- now* able' to.' estimate* the^success obtained during the two previous^ days. ', ' ]'.",]:_'/". ' ' The dash* aiid' ■vljjbr' of our''ti*obpVhn'd the valiant' '■Pfohcn'* divisibriis with which we fought sMduldfer to- shouldtt* 'areshown by 'th«'f"acH/VtHttt ! the fbrcek- attacking on- -both *iaces v ;*os' tlie/salieht affected ■d "• jurfctton' and r secured' the- results' desired* AVifihiii 27 hours; ' " ' . Besides' lißeratihg' ovei*- '156' squfc*rv mile's of ' territory 'and* -/taking'- «* 15;0Q0j prisoners, -vfe captlirced' a mass of itiaierihl. - ■" ■ . -, ■ / OVer 100 f gttns' of air calibresT' hundreds* of* machine-guns, and , trench 1 ' mo'rtarF were takeii. Despite "the enehiy- hfcying. ddrinsr the retreat bUrried large 1 stdres. a "partial exa•|_^na'tidtl , of t'he' battlefield' shows great' quantities* of ammunition*, telegraph and- railroad* material; rolling stock, clothing and : equipment abandoned . i Further evidence of the haste of the* "enertiy retreat is Revealed; iitMth¥ 1 fact ofunhrokeii bridgeVleft'"beHindi • French pursuit 1 aiid bombing 1 ' reconnaissance units, also British and r - Italian bombing units divided' Wit'H/our air service control .of the air, aitd contributed, materially )tb the success, of tlie operations. ' '"• • ■' ■•'••'"■' •' ' *'•• ■ i ■ - ■'- ''■■■ '-