SEEING THINGS AT FIRST HAND

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 308, 17 September 1918, Page 5

SEEING THINGS AT FIRST HAND

OVERSEAS EDITORS AT THE FIRING LINE. London, September 16. Australian and New Zealand editors havo been interviewed by many English newspapers. Thoy speak in glowing terms of tlio Allien cftort on the AVest front. The Australian editors, -ifter visiting tbe Australian battlefields in the vicinity of Peronne, joined the New, Zealand editors, who had spent several days with their troopß in the region of Bapaume, and also went to Ypres, Arras, and Vimy. The editors were reeeivod by Sir Douglas Ilaig. They visited Pozieres, Albert, the Ifarne, and the Vesle, and witnessed the shelling of Messines and Mont Koinmel; and from the Vimy Ridge saw the British gun 3 punishing the German support lines after their evacuation of Lens. Tho New Zealand editors were fortunate in arriving at the positions at Havrincourfc, from which the New Zealanders the same day had driven out the Germans. They saw the wounded receiving their first dressings, and many German dead—a gruesome sight. Tbe party traversed a distance of 150 nulfls, and appreciated the .opportunities of meeting Generals Slonash, Lawrence, Rawlinson, Home, and Russell. They were received by M. Poincare and. M. Clemenceau. The editors were greatly impressed bv the spirit of the Allied troops. They learned the full facts regarding the doings of their own divisions, and returned with high hopes of the future, following the splendid _ British, French, and American offensive. They regard tho present situation as extremely satis-factory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.