THE FLANDERS BATTLE.
F^RCE HAND TO HAND FIGHTING.
LONDON, October 11.
The United Press correspondent says the pocket of Germans in Daisy Wood are still holding out, but are fast dwindling.
Fighting continues at Poldershoek Chateau. Hand-to-hand fighting occurred in Celtic Wood, which the Australians are now in possession of. Bayonets were freely used in terrific man-to-man clashes. The troops never had tasks which were harder than these- The Germans were unable to make a general counter-attack. The best they could do were feeble local reactions.
The British advanced posts in the centre and right retired slightly during the night in order to better consolidate. Dawn brought tremendous aerial activity, scores of j lanes fighting amidst a storm of shrapnel and machine-gun-ning of German infantry, and the harrassmg of the enemy balloons and batteries. Kain later blotted quj, the view.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17111, 12 October 1917, Page 3
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140THE FLANDERS BATTLE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17111, 12 October 1917, Page 3
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