HARD FIGHTING.
ENEMY RESISTANCE STIFFENING.
LONDON. October ». Mi PbMlip Gibbs writes: The enemy is fighting hard for tho , Beauirevoir lines, which the Australians have broken, south and southwest of" the village, and are working forward witih the a.id of 1 tanks. which bad ground and water arc. ha.ndtacaipping'i
Enemy pillbox fortresses eastwju-d of Estrees, from -v'lich cjukp jr. slashing machine: gun fire, checked the Australians for six hours until, by dogged efforts, they overpowered the enemy. Before the Australians gained the conarete shelters the enemy shelled them with gß© shells, but'the Australians wore wealing ga«. masks, and did not retire on tihaity account, but managed to g«>t. eastiwn^d of Waincourt' and of Ueauirevoir. They held the< ipiivund all night long, while &. poiuuter bloiAV forced iho English to withdraw from. Mont Brehain.
The enemy occupied highen* groiund ' than, the Anglo-Austtalianis. and "Weira able to enfilade vs first from ono pooition and. then, from another, making 1 Mont Brehaln untenable, j' , ■ The Germain resistance on; tFe left stiffened'^. Keeping-us 'in. check, but the delay cannot' be lonig, .because' 1 tho enemy is Jn/ despeiatd sturaits for rfrescrves, ; and • there are, no line■ahead of us, which our men cannot break.-—A. and N.Z. Cable; V-V;- 'i
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 3
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