GENERAL HAIG’S REPORT.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1917, Page 2

GENERAL HAIG’S REPORT.

HEAVY GERMAN ATTACK

REPULSED AFTER GREAI FIGHT.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION.—-COPYRIGHT.] '

LONDON, September 26. —. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Under

,a thick 'mist the enemy delivered a powerful counter-attack at dawn on our positions on the ridge between the .Towei* Hamlets and Polygon Wood. He was repulsed on the bulk of the front, but northward of the Ypres Alehin road and southward of Polygon Wood he penetrated our lines for short distances on narrow fronts Fierce fighting continued during the morning. Anothe nheavyv counterattack at midday failed to make further progress and early in the afternoon we-ejected him. i We re-established the line on tho whole front 'and attacked the enemy. We raided a post southward of Queant. Four tons of bombs were dropped on aerodromes northward and southward of Roulers and near .Cambrai, and an important railway centre eastwards of Tournai was .bombed ..also -an ammunition dump northward of Oambrai and billets eastward of Lons. Eight machines were brought down. Four of ours are missing.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL AIAXWELL. KILLED IN ACTION. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) (Received This Day at noon.) LONDON, S*p. 20. Brigadier-General F. A. Maxwell has been killed.

pßrigadier-GenerM Maxwell was jn 1871. He received a V.C. in 1900; was A.D.C. to General Kitchener; served in Indian and African wars, and was decorated for gallantly in saving Q Batten- at Koorn Spruit.] BONAR LAW’S SON. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received This Dav at noon.) LONDON, Sep. 26. It is understood that another son of Hon. A. Bonar Law, an officer in the Flying Corps, is missing. One so n is already a prisoner with the (Turks.