ENEMY FIGHTING HARD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17397, 7 October 1918, Page 5

ENEMY FIGHTING HARD.

AUSTRALIANS HELD UP.

SIX HOURS BEFORE PILL-

BOXES.

AN ALL-NIGHT STRUGGLE.

Received October 6, 5.5 p.m

LONDON, October 5

Philip Gibbs writes: The enemy is fighting hard for the Beaurevoir line, which the Australians harve broken south and south-west of St. Illage, and are working forward, with the aid of tanks, which bad ground and water are har-dicapping. Enemy pill-box fortresses eastward of Estrees, from which came slashing mar chine-gun fire, checked the Australians for six hours until, by dogged efforts, they overpowered the enemy. Before the Australians gained the concrete shelters, the enemy shelled them with gas shells, but the Australians, wearing gas masks, did not retire on that account, but managed to get eastward of Wadncourt and westward of Beaurevoir, and held ground all night long, while a counter-blow forced the English to withdraw from Mont 'Brehain. The enemy occupied higher ground than the Anglo-Aus-tralians, and were able to get an enfilade fire first from one position and then another, making. Mont Brehain untenable.