FURTHER GREAT PROGRESS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 5

FURTHER GREAT PROGRESS

17,000 PRISONERS NOW TAKEN

ELEVEN :iILES ADVANCE.

CAVALRY SURROUNDING GERMANS

ENEMY ALSO RETREATING IN FLANDERS.

EXTRAORDINARY. Received August 10, 9 a.m. London, August 9. “ The Germans are retreating on the Flanders Front. The Allies have advanced eleven miles in the Montdidier region, and have captured fresnoy, ancl reached Chaulnes, New York, August 9. A London message states 'thatfj the Germans are retreating„on;the Flanders front, Jfanci evacuating their position on the Lys Valley. The|British have taken fourteen thousand prisoners, the majority of which were captured by the Australians and Canadians. The British have reached the Frames-Vanvillers-Lihon line.

The French have taken Fresnoy,

The Allies have taken two hundred guns ancl it is reported that a German Divisional General has been captured.

ihe Germans on the Amiens front are blowing up ammunition dumps. The British casualties are only nine thousand.

airmen have blown up the bridges over the Somme. French troops northwest of Montdidier have advanced four miles and captured three thousand prisoners. £The Anglo-French “advance has reached • the maximum ; depth of eleven miles. British cavalry are within a mile of Ohaulues.g Canadian cavalry surrounded a large force of Germans.