A DIFFERENT VIEW OF FRITZ.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17110, 11 October 1917, Page 5

A DIFFERENT VIEW OF FRITZ.

HUGE HAUL OF PRISONERS.

SOME UNIQUE INCIDENTS.

(United Service.) Received October 10, ? 20 p m LONDON, October 9. Mr. Murdoch, writing from the Anzac Headquarters, and referring to last Thursday's battle, says: It i* noticeable that the men speak very differently-of Fritz since this battle iney saw Germans rush singly from redoubts and die fighting. There were thousands of cases of easy surrender, but thousands offered the bitterest opposition.

Among nine guns captured by the Australians were two anti-tank guns The New Zealanders struck some heavy marshy ground, where they sank to the crutch, but they achieved the largest total of prisoners in the> whole battle.

The Australians yesterday canCured a most important German order, reversing the shell-hole defence policy as the result of a meeting of enemy army commanders, at which it was admitted, that all known methods were of no avail against the British.

Prisoners in the Australian sector ot the battle were so numerous that guards could not be spared to take them to the rear. The Australian? pointed the way and the Germans started running and did not stop until safe in the cages. A battalion commander and staff were captured under strange circumstances. The Brigadier saw upon a map, two hours after the commencement of the battle, a mark indicating the enemy battalion headquarters just outside our farthest objective. He sent out two sergeants' and three men when the barrage lifted and they returned with a colonel, nve officers and seventy Huns