GREAT ALLIED VICTORY.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5727, 2 October 1914, Page 2

GREAT ALLIED VICTORY.

ENEMY BEATEN ALL ALONG THE LINE " LIKE RATS IN A TRAP." THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. Germans Repulsed ; Austrians Surrounded.

"WE HAVE HAD TWO COOD DAYS."

[BY TELEGR PH-PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT | Received 12.20 a.m., Ist. London, October I. The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent states that the Germans for a fortnight have been struggling to avoid having their right wing turned and kept pushing the front further to the north-west, the Allies always overlapping it. Roth sides brought up very large reinforcements, necessitating long forced marches. The French troops again and again marched 20 miles daily. The Germans on Saturday realised that their efforts were in vain, and altered their plan They then tried to break the Allies’ line at Albert. Received 12.40 a.m., 2nd. London, October 1. Reports from Amiens on Sunday state that the French re-took Pernnnc on the 16th. Severe fighting followed until the 18th, when the French were on the outskirts of St, Quentin. The Germans, seeing the danger, -hurried reinforcements and ordered that the ground lost must be regained at any cost. The cost was heavy, but the French slowly rolled westward. On the 23rd the Germans retreated to Peronne. The French concentrated their heavy guns, and drove out the Germans, who brought up further artillery, and were able to recapture the town on the 26th, the French doggedly fighting every inch. To find an effective method of disturbing the enemy flying columns of heavy cavalry at night time rode through the German lines at full speed. through their bivouac, burning convoys and motor cars, and upsetting vast quantities of oil. Received 1.10 a.m., 2nd. Paris, October 1. A communique states that the general situation is satisfactory. There is no perceptible change along the front except in Southern VVoevre. There we occupied Seichapprey, and advanced to the slopes of Rupt de Mad. During the fighting at Peronne three batteries suddenly opened fire, and the first five discharges destroyed a complete German battery. Thereafter they rendered the position untenable. Received 1.5 p.m, 2nd. London, October 1. - Mr Maxwell, correspondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing on Sunday, says he is certain that Germany’s second great effort has failed. He writes: “When an English general, who is incapable of exaggeration, says, ‘We had two good days’ you may he sure they were more than good. “1 spent two days in a deserted chateau and the sound of the gunfire made it evident that the Germans were retreating. “For twelve hours the German guns to the west did not return the fire | of the Allies’ heavy artillery; even the quarries look deserted. "it is rumoured that the Germans have evacuated them owing to their unbutied dead poisoning the air, but they are not all deserted, for the French attacked one series of quarrys forts at Laegue, under cover of a mist, and killed the defenders like rats in a hole. "In another case the Allies set fire to a spinney, and under cover of the smoke reached a point commanding a quarry. ’ The enemy fled, leaving many dead. “It is certain that the enemy is beaten along the whole line, despite their reinforcements, and the desperation which they fought. “They made terrific attacks for two days in overwhelming numbers, but reinforcements arrived at a critical moment. “Charges were continuously delivered until the plain was strewn with wounded and dying. “The German ranks were shattered and driven back to the trenches. “Similar bayonet attacks and counter attacks-raged throughout the west end of the flank, hut victory always rested with'the Allies. Their losses were heavy, but the Red Cross officers state that the dead are not nearly so numerous as was expected. “The enemy must soon make arother retreat to the east and north, I but they must hold their western flank to the very last moment in order j to save their centre.’’