HURRIEDLY ABANDONED VILLAGES.
ALLIES AVOIDING BATTLE FOR
LILLE
(Reuters Telegrams.)
London, Oct. 11
Reuters correspondent at British Headquarters, writing on Thursday evening says:—The enemy's retirement was so hurried that even civilians were not removed from the captured villages. The tendency of our progress is parallel with the Le Cateau road. Thu^ we are elongating the salient eastward without a corresponding extension northwards. . I believe that this is strategically deliberate, and it should be considered in conjunction with the situation around Lille. We are apparently avoiding a pitched battle at Lille, which would give the Germans an excuse for wantonly devastating the great manufacturing district of Flanders. , . ~ The sodden ground is restricting movements, but the enemy are m siich an uncomfortable plight in the clay plains that they will probably not attempt to remain in their present positions long. . ' * ' '
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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138HURRIEDLY ABANDONED VILLAGES. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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