THE GERMAN RETREAT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 5

THE GERMAN RETREAT.

COUNTER-ATTACKS NORTH' OF LE CATEAU.

SUCCESSFULLY REPULSED

BRITISH PROGRESS AT DOUAI

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

London, Oct. 14. Sir Douglas Haig reports:— On Sunday afternoon the enemy opened a heavy bombardment on a wide front northward of Le Cateau, launching strong infantry attacks on bur positions eastward of the Selle river in the neighbourhood of Solesmes. These attacks were successfully repulsed after stiff fighting. Other attacks in which tanks were employed supporting the infantry assault against our positions opposite Haspres, were unsuccessful. .Our patrols advanced at a number of points' southward and northward of Douai. They gained ground, taking

prisoners