ADVENTUROUS WARFARE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16215, 21 August 1918, Page 7

ADVENTUROUS WARFARE.

SUITS THE AUSTRALIANS. LONDON, August 1. ' Mr. Perry Robinson, correspondent of the Times, states that the Australians are good at all kinds of fighting, but they are peculiarly adapted to BO?higuei'illa, adventurous warfare, which demands great individual initiative. Tho capture of Morris was the climax to a dashing series of exploits extending over two months. The enemy showed his annoyance by heavily shelling the area after its capture, but no infantry action followed. Sir. Beach Thomas, correspondent of tho Daily Mail, says that 200 enemy dead were counted on Monday on one short sector at Sailly Laurette. A gas attack elsewhere surprised and killed a whole garrison. Prisoners freely confess their depression, chiefly owing to tho news from the Marne. Reuter’s correspondent at British headquarters telegraphs that two recent Australian enterprises proved more successful than it was originally believed they had been. Between Sailly Laurette and Morlancourt, on the Amiens front, six enemy battalions were so heavily punished that they were rendered unfit for further fighting. Our casualties wore very light. The First Australian Division on Tuesday completed the capture of Morris, in which numerous trench mortars and machine-guns were found. The moral of tho prisoners is distinctly indifferent. It is suggested, though with reseivo, that the German commanders nro increasingly uneasy at the state of mind of their troops.