VICTORIOUS ADVANCE IN NEW OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 277, 12 August 1918, Page 5

VICTORIOUS ADVANCE IN NEW OFFENSIVE

ALLIED PATROLS REPORTED IN CHAULNES SIGNS OF DISORDERLY RETREAT EVERYWHERE By AsEociaiion-Oopyrlsht, mile? 6 , Fr ° nCh a^ Me Sm rcacM a m«£"m Y dJb, A Tde™„ £™fc,l-™ t£ ? m rM^ ed the FranwmUe-LihoM line, while the French have taken Fresnoy seven miles east of Moreuil). The British rnvnliVn™, withm a mile of Chaulnes (35 miles south-east of Amiens). The Germans arc fcf %rT m H°\ dump 3' Allie(1 ni ™ Cll lla ™ Mown up bridges over the fe I h „°„ roops north-west of Montdidier advanced our m°S aid tlfrmSnußStrSS ° Pini ° n is Satisfl «' th "' tySf a f h^l ?£ majority were captured b.y the Australians and Canadians. The Ca adian cav airy.surrounded a.lar F e force of Germans. It is reported that a GermTn" Vn ldd & tI,OSO m P Tc hui. led gun™ also taken. The British casualties are only nine thousand. The Germans\™ evacuating positions ,n the Lys Valley in lenders. The enemy Sir d MONTDIDIER CAPTURED-25,000 PRISONERS TO DATE (Rcc. August 11, 5.5' p.m.) Montdidier has been captured. , New York, August 10. The total number of prisoners to date (including those°?Mottlidtrf is twonty-fivo thousand.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Awnwumer) is —7 TOUGH FIGHTING AT MORLANCOURT AND CHIPILLY i ' (Rec. August 11, 5.5 p.m.) The "Daily Chronicles" correspondent, Mr Ncvin=on s «vW'foW. 8 - northward of the Sommo continues to be slow rt is Sn t*T vance over the plain.. The evidence°that our surprisehaTbeen jJnZ "*' shown m the fact that the ruined houses and duwufa are full of ™i™? v™ longings, letters, official papers, photographs books Ldolntl L„ pe^sonal torow of.dug-outs and caves" lid been conftd in the ctalky Sonune, rennmscent of the Anno precipice oaves but the Somm P S..l+ '•" the open plain are from twenty to thirty feet deep.»-Am.N.Z. CalkJ Assn! ln BATTLE SPREADING NORTHWARD TO ARRAS " (Rec. August 11, 5.5 p.m.) HEW FfiENCfl ATTACK BETWEEN MOMWffl AND lASSIGNY AN ADVANCE OP FOUR MILES (Rec. August 11, 5.5 p.m.) b^vSS^ BUOYANT STOCKS IN WALL STREET (Roe. August 11, 5.5 p.m.) world's, record.-Aus.'-N.Z. Cable Assn l a ! )0V0 p . ar ' vhlA . is a RECORD BUSINESS ON SYDNEY EXCHANGE. (Rec. August 11, 5.5 p.m.) •■There was a record dealing on the Stock TV-pl,™,, 1 ™)/, August 10. *ar news, prices in the mining div kioc neeiX ?ft T" g - l ° ft » ««Hent » estimated that the business" exceeded Z J millio^ U ADVANCE BELIEVED TO BE GREATER THAN ANNOUNCED HALF THE ENEMY'S GUNS SAID TO BE CAPTURED. (Rec. August 11, 5.5 p.m.) It is beli ovc d that the Allied advance is greater than lm« K' K " St D ', its air guns i,chimi thc °™ & s»s GOOD CANADIAN AND AUSTRALIAN STAFF WORK (Rec. August 11, 5.5 p.m.)' A Canadian correspondent, describing the Canadian and ASalfaTalv/nre B* of thf WH k 'i ? otaks ? n , dCava,ry within fifteen minute f th"btginning ot the battle had surrounded numerous prisoners, it first the atmosphere was clear and the night starry. Afterwards a fog filled the va leys but f.zSeXn Bd AUBtrßlian9 M7Cr BlttCkMod thoir ™ m tt7ir SmSKaS*-