GERMANS RECOVERING MORALE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11615, 14 August 1918, Page 5

GERMANS RECOVERING MORALE.

FISHTIN9WITH MORE DETERMINATION.

AUSTRALIANS WORM THEIR WAY TO BATTLE. Times. Loudon, August 12. Mr Robinson writes: The enemy has recovered from his panic Although the divisions which bora the brunt of the attach on the British front were practically blotted out, only remnants escaping, new divisions are lighting with greater determination, resisting in the 1916 trenches, and dug-outs along the river on the line Ohuignolles-Proy-rat-Bray, where machine-guns were so fierce that fthe attackers‘were compelled to crawl on their stomachs the last thousand yards. less, the Australians determinedly attacked., and gwon the ground, but failed to get beyond Proyart, owing to the great number of machineguns. We captured a wood north of Proyart, .'after a two hours’ stiff battle, while the Australians on the left worked through strong defences, winning the ridge Chaiguolles to Raincourt, and captured the latter, greatly improving the situation for the troops on the northern side of the river.

New German forces heavily counter-attacked at Lihons, and succeeded in forcing ns |back, j|The Australians dashingly re-attacked, and flung the enemy back, placing Lihons safely in our hands.