SELENCY CAPTURED.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14877, 27 September 1918, Page 5

SELENCY CAPTURED.

COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED

(Australian and-N.Z. Cable

and Reuter.)

(Received Sept. 26, 10.15 p.m.) , London, September 25,

Sir Douglas Haig reports :—

Sharp local fighting occurred this morning in the neighbourhood of Selency, which we captured with several prisoners.

Our rifle fire and machine-gun fire liroke up with loss three counterattacks north-west of Fayet.

We .beat, off; the enemy's, attempted surprise attack eastward : of ;. Epehy. Many^-German, dead /were left in front of our positions. , .//•■". :

We repulsed laiders last night south-. *iast of Inchy...".. . .

A strong enemy party-entered a post tit the neighbourhood of Moeuvres, but was ejected by a counter-attack.