GREAT BATTLE RAGING

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13887, 12 October 1918, Page 5

GREAT BATTLE RAGING

ON A 30-MILE FRONT. LITTLE ENEMY RESISTANCE. (Australian, N.Z. and Router..) Received Octoher 12, S.to a.m. NEW YORK October 11. A great battle is rar.ng on a 311-mile front east of Cumhrai. There is little enemy resistance. ANGLO-AMERICAN PROGRESS. MORE TOWNS OCCUPIED. High Commissioner's cable:— LONDON, October 11, noon. Sir Douglas Haig reports that last evening the Americans completed the capture of Vaux Andigny and St. Souplet. Tiie British crossed the Selle north, wards of Le Gateau and reached the outskirts of St. Vaast and St. Aubort. RAPID PROGRESS DESPITE ENEMY EFFORTS. TOWNS AND VILLAGKS CAPTURED. 2500 CIVILIANS RELEASED. Australian and N.Z. and Reuter.) Received October 12. 10.r> a.m. LONDON, net. It. Sir Douglas Haig reports that we resu I our advance at dawn on the whole battle front, and are rapidly progressing at all points. Despite lie efforts of the enemy's rearguards to Imlil us up, we are approaching the large woods eastward ><\ Bobain, and have entered Vaux Audibly. NorthWard of dial place we have reached tie 1 general line id' the <e|]e rivei' from St. Souplel hi Ihc neighbourhood "f Sulesmes. and raptured I.e. Gateau. Westwards of Solesmcs we captured Avesnes. Hicux. Thun and St. Martin. Westward of the Kscaul canal we have taken Etrun. In the towns and villages captured to-day a number of civilians were found, including 2500 in G tudry. South-eastward of Lens we further progressed, and captured Rouvroy.