NEW ZEALANDERS TAKE BAPAUME

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 294, 31 August 1918, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS TAKE BAPAUME

SPLENDID PROGRESS MADE .... ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES MANY PRISONERS AND: GUNS CAPTURED , ■' \ It is officially announced to-day that the New Zealanders have captured Bapaumb; British and French troops have made another extended advance north and south of the Somme. The Germans .'■■ have been driven across the Somme on a 'fairly long front south of ' Peronne, from which place tho British are now separated only by .the river. Further-south tho French have captured Noyon and a ' wood which extends three miles east of that centre. There are interesting developments in the region of. the Aisne. In their bridgeheads north of the Teste, a few miles south of the Aisne, the Americans have lost some ground in German, attacks which were appar- ' , ently intended to clear the north bank of the river and create '•■' ' better conditions for a- retreat., The Americans, as information stands,, are still in position north of the Vesle, and are counter.attacking. Meantime the French, now with American ■ troops cooperating, are again pushing forward on the front north of Soissons. " which looks into the flank of the German line along the Aisne and ' ". ' ■ Teste.:' . . . :'-,■■