SUCCESSFUL WEEK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14711, 17 September 1918, Page 3

SUCCESSFUL WEEK.

WHOLE LINE GOES FORWARD

I LONDON, Sept. 4. | Renter's correspondent at British headquarters, reviewing the week's progress, says that the unanimous spirit it the front is one of calm confidence. Everything' has gone excellently w'eJL The great machinery of our initiative has continued to work perfectly smoothly.

Considering the extent and importance of the operations the net casualties have been very light. v Both m the north and south of the great British battle area the open war* faro is becoming still more open. Ope of tlie most remarkable features is the promptness with which the field guns gallop into action far forward, and the marvellous celerity of . the heavies m trundling to the front across the broken md littered roads apd shell-tbssed country. . . '

This morning's attack by the Third Army was completely successful. We are now actually within 300 yards of the Queant-Drocourt switch line, whicH is even a more elaborate obstacle than the original Hindenburg line. It consists of five distinct lines, traversed with trenches and honeycombed with machine-gun emplacements and deep dug-outs. It is widely wired.

[The cable news m this Issue aeeredited to the London Times has appeared m that journal, hut only where ex* preasiy stated 1s such news the Editorial opinion of the Times.]