GERMANS GOING BACK.
SMART WORK BY SCOTCH
AND WELSH.
Received 12.45 a.m., Aug. 21
LONDON, Aug. 20. Mr Percival Phillips states: Four out of five German armies facing the British are now occupied with a back, ward movement. It is not a general retirement, but the front involved is sufficiently wide to cause further disquiet among the German troops concerned. Yesterday the German Sixtft Army lost the remaining high ground overlookiifig the Lys plain, when the Scots and Welsh took Outterstreene Spur by v neat surprise. The Germans were expecting an early morning attack, but we launched: a. smoke screen at 11 o'clock in the morning, and attacked from the north instead of the wtst. Therefore, the Germans were surrounded before they could rally.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17361, 21 August 1918, Page 5
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