ENEMY RESISTANCE STIFFENS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11616, 15 August 1918, Page 5

ENEMY RESISTANCE STIFFENS.

OLO3E INTENSE FIGHTING,

AUSTRALIANS IN GfiUHTER-

ATTACK.

United Service. London. August 13.

Mr Murdoch, correspondent at the Australian headquarters, writing on the lltb, states; As fresh Hun troops arrive, including grenadier guards, the resistance stiffens, and the battle begins lo assume the normal characteristics of close intense fighting. The imcortance of oai successes on 'our left flank is chown bv the great scale —almost frantic in nature —on which the Geimaus hold (iq to the ridge in front ot Lihons. The German gunners were told to sacrifice their guns in order to hamper the advance- The infantry were told to die on the ridge. The ridga is the strongest position between Bretonneux and Roye. It dominates the plain and is tne beginning of the old Sonique battlefield, and mazes of old trenches overgrown with grass, but serviceable, are available for the defenders. The Australians'did some bitter fightine round the ridge, eventually outflanking the Germans and driving them back in fierce *cotmler-attacks, capturing a number of guns. The Australian losses were under half.the number of prisoners taken. Booty continues to pile up, fine Eosieres dump alone was wortli a million sterling.

ENEMY CLINGING TO EDGES,

CAPTURE OF BOIS UE JbOGES.

EEFECIED WITH MAGKIFI

CENT DASH,

London, August Id. Reuter’s correspondent at French headquarters, writing on the afternoon of the 13th, states that the enemy is desperately clinging to the western and southern edges of the Thiescouru hills, between Laasigny and the Oise, the key to which proposition is St Claude Farm on a hill six hundred feet high, just east of Narcuillamotto, and dominating the whole region. Further north, between Gnry and the Bois de Loges, the Germans hold the line of, the old entrenchments, stuffed with ma-chine-guns. Tire capture of Bois de Logss on the morning of the 13th was effected with magnificent; dash. The Germans, counter-attacking in the afternoon, re-occupied part o? the wood