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GOURAUD'S DASHING OFFENSIVE

DRIVING THE ENEMY FROM THE ARGONNE \ _ ■ ■ ' . | SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESSES IN FLANDERS j • i London,.November 3. ; The "Daily Chronicle" Rays: "General Gouraud's dashing attack on the Aisne i is progressing. Ho has undertaken to facilitate the northward movement of the j Americans on the right, and to eliminate as a factor the whole of ill© northern / portion of the Argonne, which has hitherto been very harassing to the French. General Gouraud's north-eastward advance, coupled with the Americans', .is cal- , culated to deprive the Germans of a position of considerable strategic import- -t ance, besides involving ihein in the risk of being pinched in a position from ; j which there is no escape."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ! GREAT ADVANCES IN THE WEST ■ ."' j (Eec. November 4, 8.45 p.m.) ■ • . London,, November 3. j The Belgians advanced fight miles yesterday, and are now east of the Deri-' j vation Canal, Bassevelde, and Slevdinge, and are approaching the Teruovezen . ; Canal. The French Fourth .and American First Armies continue to make good | progress west of the Meuse. fnd have advanced seven miles on athirty-niile front. > -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ " j GERMAN ATTACKS ON OPEN TOWNS j i - | ■ VIOLENT RAID ON NANOY. ' '-p-' (Eeo. November 4. 7.15 p.m.) '"• '■; Pans, November 3. Gothas violently bombed Nancy on Thursday night and did considerable dam. • age. There were numerous victims. Although there had been many.alarms m the . previous two days, the inhabitants did not ibelieve that the enemy would attack j open towns while an armistice was pending.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ! — '•■ ! ENEMY FIGHTING HARD i ' j WHOLE FRONT' : QUIVER.ING WITH BATTLE ACTION., j (Eec. November i, 8.5 p.m.) . ; i London, November 3. i The United Press correspondent states :-"The whole front is quivering under the shock of attacks and counter-attack from the Dutch frontier to the junction- j of the British-and French forces beyond St. Quentm. German orders have ; been issued explaining that a favourable arniistice will be impossible unless the I troops put up a good fight. The present fighting is as hard as. it has been at | any time. The German infantry is showing qualities similar to those displayed in 1914. The British captured St. Hubert and a spur eastward of Leveque Wood as the result of which we have been able to accelerate the German retire- , ment. The enemy is again blowing up bridges, railways, and streams, par- | ticularly along the Scheldt, where the Belgians are advanoing rapidly.' GERMAN RETREAT ON AMERICAN FRONT i RAPIDLY BECOMING DISORGANISED. J (Eec. November -Ji, 8.5 p.m.) ,] Paris, November 3. ; A'telegram from the American front states that the German retreat is rap- j idly became disorganised. "Our second day's attack on a 16-mile front secured j an'average advance of 2| miles. Aviators, (lying fifty feet over the German j troops' are merciless machine-gunning them until they scatter in a disorderly, rush for refuge of any kind.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, > ~ ~'■ "I THE OFFICIAL REPORTS i : ' .'■■ : ' ■"■'■] ' ' , ' .': I FLANDERS OFFENSIVE BEARS FRUIT '■ ._. i ■ . _ _ .:■ , - ■ ,;,.,..■.:■ - ■, London, '.November 3. ! A British communique from the Belgian front states: "The attacks by'the j Second British Armv and the Franco-American Army on October 31 and No- i i vember 1 bore fruit ,to-day. Pa-essed 'by the Belgian Army and the left of the . , French Army, the enemy was forced to retreat hastily in the direction, of the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. At the end of the day the French dnd Belgians reached i the line of Eecloo, Waerschoot, and the Lieve Canal, and further south, as fan- as ' ; SeevcHiem, reached to two tnd a half miles from the outskirts <f Client, the j left bank of the .Scheldt .being occupied as far north as Somerzaeke. The Allied - aviators throughout maintained the mastery of the air. The results obtained by , i the British aviators were particularly reinarkable."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- \ Eeu t° r - London, November 3. \ A Belgian communique, dated Saturday, states •-"As the result of. the fight- , ing of the last'few days, the enemy this morning abandoned his positions on • the Derivation Canal, which we crossed at dawn to the north of the BrugesGhent Canal. We have occupied Eecloo and Waerschoot, and carried our line to ' the Lieve Canal, between the Bruges-Ghent Canal and the Lys, and advanced i beyond Meerenrde, Overspoucke, Baervelde and Baerle. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.Beuter. '' ."■'. . ' . . - j DETERMINED FIGHTING EAST OF VALENCIENNES London. November 8; .; Sir Douglas Haig reports: "There was determined fighting all day south end i east of Valenciennes. We rriado good progress north-east of Maerseches and'east ! and north of Pjeseau, and captured the hamlet'of St. Hubert and the farms in the vicinity. East of Valenoiennes we captured Marly village, and entered, St. | Saulve In the course of these operations wo captured two-tanks- which', the > onemy used in his unsuccessful counter-attacks on ; Friday, and took several hun- | dved prisoners. We advanced the line by a successful minor operation west of ; j Landrccies." London, November 3, 1.35-p.m. ' ' '■ In a later report Sir Douglas Haig states: "On Saturday we captured the j steel works south-east of Valenciennes,-and advanced the line a, mile and a half j east of the town. We completed the capture of St Saulve. In. two dan wo have taken five thousand prisoners, four tanks, and a few >guns. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable • , Assn.-Eeuter. ' ENEMY RETIRING ON VALENCIENNES FRONT-) \ (Eec. November 4, 8.5 p.m.) ,"■-... London, November 3, 11 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports: "Following on the severe defeat inflicted upon him , A„JZ fh« nast two days the enemy has withdrawn from his positions eastward LftSeSwariofValenciennes 5 . We observed the movement and the keeping to coXt with tte German rearguards taking numbers .of prisoners We en- • StpH Villers Pol Jenlain, Curgies, Estreux, and Onnaing. Local. fighting to the^werfwarf'resulted to '• «dvfnta'ge."-Aus.-N.Z. Cahle j VIGOROUS PRESSURE BY THE .'{ ■ ■ i London, November 3. " > A French communique dated November 3,6.10 a.m., states: at- ! tacks br the Fourth Army on the Aisno front, combined with the victorious , American effort, between the Argonne and the Mouse, compelled the enemy to retreatTthrough the Argonne Forest. His rearguards resisted desperate y, • but , weunable to arrest the advance. Our left occupied he southern bank of the Ardennes Canal for 2000 yards between Semuy and Neuville-et-Day. Further »ut, wo captured the Vandy Woods .-nd the village of Ballay and reached the Sib of Aliens. In ipite of the fiercest resistance, our right wing captured Lomrn-o and passed Chinopate, and vigorously pursued the enemy, in spite of the semiis obstacle of the Argonne Forest. The enemy is abandoning ~uge quantities of material and hundreds of prisoners are being aken Despite a dense,, fog on the wholo'front, onr i viators were most active. Two of their reconnaissances pushed seventv-five miles in the enemy's rear, exploring the, province of Namur. *5 grtaactivity'among troops and convoys was reported m the enemy's rear opposite the Argonne Forest/148 bombing aeroplanes in successive groups, protected by 120 fighting 'planes, went out. They dropped forty tons of explores ■. and fired thousands of cartridges, causing a panic and dispersing the enemy concentrations. Seventeen German aeroplanes were shot doin. tons f { bombs were dropped on enemy stations during tho night. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable , | AKU.-Eouter. • Londo|l) Noveml)er 3 , J A French communique, issued this evening, state:-"Oii the Aisno front, ! we tain advanced, during the night, and took tho. villages of La Croix aux Brois and Nivry. The enemy's resistance has appreciably■increased,, especially in the forat of Argonne. The material abandoned during the reheat includes fouren guTs, five of them of large calibre Since the begmnmg of the operation! we have, taken over 2000 prisoncrs.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,l!euter. , i IRRESISTIBLE ADVANCE BY THE AMERICANS j London, November 3. .1 An American communique states: "The First 'Armv continued _to advance, j overcoming all resistance, Mid captured among towns cf Champlg- ' neX Morthomme, Verpel, Bunnoy Villers-Dovant-Diin ,and Clery-le-Pehl-. j n™. nrisoncrs now exceed four thousand, and include four battalion commanders, with their staffs. The f nemy abandoned hugo masses of material, and sixty-three - eu is and hundreds of machine-guns wore captured A complete Bayanivn battery was captured, with lis personnel and horses."-Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Ecuter. j (Eec. November i. 9.15 p.m.) ■] New York, Novembor 3. Tho New York "Times" correspondent on tho American front says that the v i Americans are within seven niles of the German main railway between Mezieres, ,j Sedan, and Longuyon.-Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. -..■'■ ,>, '' i , " i THE ENEMY'S REPORT ~ ; ! r ■-•■'■■ j : ■ London, November 3. '. i A German official .report stales:—"We .have withdrawn from the junction . j of the Lys and tho Scheldt to Ghent. Tho English pressed us back to Saultain, and recaptured Preseau. Owing to an American break-through, we withdrew be- ! tween the Aisne and Champigneulle."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn.-Eeuter. j . •■■ ''■.'! ALLIES'"BAG "SINCE AUGUST ■■-■' j (Eec, November 4, 8.5 p.m.) 1 Paris, November 3. Since August 15 tho Allies have taken prisoner 7990 officers and c5i,268 men, and captured 6217 guns and 38,622 machine-guns. Of these, 2472 officers, 105,871 men, 2064 guns, and 13,639 machine-guns have boon captured during, October,— •Eeuter.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 35, 5 November 1918, Page 5

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GOURAUD'S DASHING OFFENSIVE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 35, 5 November 1918, Page 5

GOURAUD'S DASHING OFFENSIVE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 35, 5 November 1918, Page 5

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