THE GERMANS OUTWITTED.
PREVENTED REMOVING BOOTY
(Router's Message.) (R-eccived September 28, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. A British Headquarters correspondent} writes:—
We learned from prisoners that the Germans proposed to evacuate Cornbles at night, so our artillery barraged it intensely all night across the lino of retreat to prevent the German withdrawal, &e»c© the enormous booty
secured
A captured German officer said the
officers could not get the men. to fight, but the men retort that tho officers wore shirking, going to hospital on the smallest pretext.
The nncmy axo showing less stomach for fight, while the spirit of our men beggars description.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19160928.2.28.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3566, 28 September 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103THE GERMANS OUTWITTED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3566, 28 September 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in