THE ALLIES’ GAINS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11614, 13 August 1918, Page 5

THE ALLIES’ GAINS.

35,000 PRISONERS AND 500 GUNS. Paris, August 11. The Franco-British up to last night, imprisonered 35,000, including several thousand officers. Captured guns exceed 500. A PROBABLE ENEMY DEFENSIVE. London, August 12. Mr Sidehotham thinks the Germans are preparing to resume a strategical defence on the West front. The movement resembles tne retreat in the spring of 1917, the Germans probably making St. Quentin, Peroune, Noyon, Fere and the Aisne the keys of a defensive system, confining themselves to local offensives and military operations through Turkey in the east. GERMAN REPORT. Loudon. August 11.

Wireless German official.—Saturday's attacks were mainly against the front- between Lihons and the Avre. We repulsed repeated attacks eastward of Roizeres and astride the Amiens ro-ul and Rove despite the enemy’s superiority and the massed employment of armoured cars. Over forty of these wtre destroyed in front of one division. Eastward of Montdidier we withdrew, fighting beyond the line La Boisiece-Haicvillers-Roequebce and irarest.