CAPTURE OF GOUZEAUCOURT WOOD.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 5

CAPTURE OF GOUZEAUCOURT WOOD.

NEW -i ZEALANDERS ENGAGED.

FRUITLESS COUNTER-ATTACKS WEST OF LA BASSEE.

| (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.)

(Received Sept. 10, 7.55 p.m.) London, Sept. 9, 11 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— X..-JSarly this morning' English; and New Zealand detachments- attacked and carried German positions on high ground. ; between Peiziere and Havrincourt Wood. After a sharp fight, in which «6i*pulsed a heavy counter-attack with loss, we gained the old British trench . lines on the ridge overlooking Gouzeaucourt, capturing Got\zeaucourt Wood. On the left the attack of other English troops successfully advanced the ' j line in the eastern portions of HavrinL court Wood. We captured a number of prisoners

in those operations. We repulsed attacks against the posts recently established westward of La Bassee. In wet and Btormy weather the aeroplanes carried out their work with difficulty We dropped five tons of bombs in the daytime. There was no night flying. The enemy's activity is sEght. We i brought down five enemy machines and drove down two uncontrollable. No British aeroplanes.are missing.

CONTINUED FRENCH ADVANCE.

CAPTURES EAST OF CROZAT

CANAL,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) | (Received Sept. 10, 10.25 p.m.) London, Sept. 10. A French communique states:— Our troops to-day made fresh ad- j vances at different points. Eastward !' of St. Quentin we captured Etreillers arid Roupy. / ■ Beyond the Crozat Canal we captured Grand Seraucourt, Claatres, Contes- ' court, Lizerolles, and Reigmy. 1 We occupied Hill 103, southward of Contescourt, Essigny-le-Grand station, I Hill 117, north of the Oise, Fort de j Liez, and woods north-west of Canalers Farm and Red Farm. We captured south of the Oise brick works and tbe station at Servais. We advanced in the region north of Laffaux, and in the region of Glennes, between the Aisne and the Vesle. i