THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 674, 28 August 1917, Page 1

THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN.

THE FLANDERS BATTLE. BRITISH FRONT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn* and Reuter. LONDON. Yesterday. General Sir Douglas Haig re(ions We captured the enemy's positions ory a Croat oC over a jinile eastward of Hargicourt. We penetrated half a : 'mile carrying strong points, Cologne farm and Talakof. The enemy this morning attacked, using flammcmvcrfer on the -VprcsAlenin road, and momentarily roocenpied the north-west corner of Inverness copse. A emmtor-athick restored our positions. AVe have slightly advanced southeast of St JulienTho enemy recaptured a post scuth-wost of LombacrUyde. We brought down seven enemy aeroplanes. FRENCH FRONT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn* and Reuter. A French communique states: On, the right of the Meuse we successfully "attacked between .Mormon Farm .and Bois Lochamm. We captured all our objectives on a tour kilometres front to a. depth of a kilometre. The whole of the Bois dos Fosses and Bois pies Beaumont is in our hands. AVe reached the southern outskirts of the village of Beaumont. Our artillery, caught and dispersed with heavy losses violent counterattacks debouching from Bois das lc Wavrille. | jfl \ . GERMAN REPORT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn* and Reuter. LONDON, yesterday. (Admiralty, Per Wireless). A German official report states;— The French gained initial successes near Beaumont AVe subsequently drove them back.

BATTLE OF iUESSINES. HONOURS FO|l NEW ZEALANDERS. WELLINGTON, 'Yesterday. It is announced that at least two hundred awards have been conferred on New Zealanders in connection with the splendid part they played at the taking of Messincs Ridge. The 'awards arc for acts of individual bravery..