IN THE WEST

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13886, 11 October 1918, Page 5

IN THE WEST

GENERAL ENEMY RETREAT RESISTANCE BECOMING WEAKER. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 11, 12.r>0 a.m. LONDON, October 10. The enemy is in general retreat between the Scarpe and St. Ouentin. They are already back two or three miles, and their resistance this morning was very weak. The Anglo-French are not yet in contact with the main bodies of the enemy, who has set on tire Bohain and Busigny. They are apparently going back to the line of the Oise, while the enemy in the Argonne is going behind the Aire. The Anglo-French advance now threatens Vouziers and the enemy is bound to fight here steadily, owing to the important communications behind. The general situation is such that at any moment there may be a German retirement anywhere, including the Belgian coast.

250.000 Germans in full I RETREAT. BRITISH APPROACH LE CATEAU. * (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 11, 9. a.m. NEW YORK, October 10. The German retreat from Cambrai in two days exceeds 15 miles, 2o0,0f)0 Germans being in full retreat on this front. The British hive reached the outskirts of Le Cateau. The French in the St. Quentin region captured Marcy. Fontaine and Notre Dame. NUMBERS THROW DOWN THEIR ARMS. TENACITY OF THE BRITISH. (The Times.) Received October 11, 1 p.m. PARIS, October 10. M. Marcel Hutin writes: Owing to the rapidity of the Allied attack completely upsetting the arrangements for withdrawal, large numbers of Germans threw down their arrrv\ Such defeats must produce an enormous effect on German public opinion. They are specially due to the legendary tenacity of the British troops.