THE WESTERN FRONTS
HUNS INTEND TO DEVASTATE NORTHERN FRANCE AS THEY RETREAT. (The Times.) Received October 10, p.m. AMSTERDAM, October 9. German officers slate that the High Command intends to utterly destroy Northern France if compelled to make a further retreat, in the hope of delaying the Allies' advance. 10,000 TONS OF SHELLS FiRED ON WESTERN FRONT DAILY. Ci PEH CENT. OF THE GERMAN ARTILLERY DESTROYED IN A MONTH. (Reuter's Telegrams.') Received October 10, 7.10 p.m. LONDON, October p. Mr Winston Churchill. Minister of Munitions, speaking at Glasgow, said that for nearly Isuccessive days we had tired ovr 10,000 tons of shells daily. lb* said that lie had recently been shown a captured Ludendorff order saying that in a single month the enemy*.-; tire destroyed over II! per cent, of the German artillery. BELGIAN PROTEST AGAINST SYSTEMATIC HUN BARBARITIES. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) R'-ceivcd October 10, 7.10 p.m. HAVRE, October 9. The Belgian Government has issued m emphatic protest against the systematic pillaae, destruction, deportation, forced labour, and German excesses during the withdrawals from Belgium.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13886, 11 October 1918, Page 5
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