HUN HORRIBLE DESTRUCTIVENESS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11631, 5 September 1918, Page 5

HUN HORRIBLE DESTRUCTIVENESS.

LEAVING ONLY RUINS. London, September 3. Mr Robinson writes: The retreating enemy is carrying out his old work of destroying everything. Ail towns and villages on the horizon are in smoke by day, and the skies are ablaze at night. Bailleul is mined like Yprea. The solid stone and brick town has been reduced to formless heaps of rubble with a few broken mins. ‘Only fragments of the cathedral remain.

SIR JOSEPH WARD INTERVIEWED. STRUCK WITH BRITISH SPIRIT. L6ndon, September 8. Sir Joseph Ward interviewed, says ihe returns immensely struck with’the fine spirit of ail classes, their fixed determination to go right on, and the general aversion to peace by negotiation. The latter would be a disaster to the wnol© civilised world. Wo are now certainly on the road to victory, and it is ouly a matter of time to secure repayment for our great sacrifices. Labour has acted" well. Without its cc-operation the successful carrying on of the war would be impossible. There is no need for gloominess over the future. People who have provided their own requirements as Britain has done during the war can be depended upon to meet after-the-war conditions.

BETWEEN OISE AND AISNE. London, Sepfe. 3. A French communique, issued at 4 p.m., stated: There was artillerylire in the night time on the Somme and between the Oise and Aisne. Enemy raids in the region of the Veale and the Vosges were without result. There is nothing to report elsewhere.