CAVALRY IN PURSUIT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3567, 29 September 1916, Page 5

CAVALRY IN PURSUIT.

BMY THROWN INTO A ROUT

LONDON, September 28. „ Mr Phillip Gibbs, writing in the "Daily Chronicle," says: — "In the night the enemy troops between Iviorval and Saiily melted away!

"Our cavalry patrols were ovit tryiug to iind, their rearguard, • and our gunners were quick to find the target. "■ "Clouds of shrapnel burst over masses of men and threw them-into a,

jt;;mk--stricken rout. ' . „ ' "•■They' flung down their 1- rifles • and psjt-ks and fled to le Trausloy, leaving many dead and wounded in thoir wake. " The worst thing that has happened to the enemy is his breaking moral. The enemy fought well, but he saw that if ho' held on any longer he must either die or be taken prisoner. As soon as ovir men swept across the trenches and the sunken roads and entered the villages, the garrisons came from underground and surrendered in heaps. They could have fought longer rind harder perhaps, but only with their backs against the wall, which was asking for death. They had not the (spirit to do that. They% were done and do hoc! by the appalling intensity of the shell-fire, and disheartened by the unfailing regularity with which the. British have captured their strong- ! holds since July. Their confidence and faith in the German war machine has been destroyed. They were stupefied, at-the grim way we attacked, reckless of loss. - ■ , ■ "I saw 1200 prisoners brought in... mostly. Prussians. Many confessed that it was a greot British victory.. Those men as p whcle have none.of the braggart confident of the prisoners taken a year ago."