ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1917, Page 3

ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

THE CHEERLESS BATTLEFIELD

’Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, NovT 28,

Mr Phillip Gibbs states the weather lias turned bitterly cold, both men and animals suffering from exposure to the savage, cutting wind over a widestretch of shelterless country, over which the army moved forward beyond any standing habitations, and the ordinary comforts, which were left behind.

There is whole stretches on some of the battlefields where villages are mere rubbish heaps. Only graveyards and signboards indicate the positions or the towns of Pozieres, Combles, and Quillomont, otherwise it is a wild waste of desolation, haunted by hidden horrors.

BOURDON WOOD INTACT. (Received This Riv at 12.25. n.. LONDON, Nov. 28. The United press correspondent at British headquarters ssiys following a futile attack against the British position at Tadpole Copse, southward of Rich y, the enemy aIT night shelled Bourlon Wood, Anneux, Graincourt and Demicoult, but the position is little changed. Some posts were established northwest. of Brillicourt- in the Hindenburg advance line. Our line is apparently westward of Fontaine, hut Bourlon Wood is secure. ENEMY LOSSES. fAUSTRALIAN <fc N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.l LONDON, Nov. 28. A French communique confirms that our attack on the 21st at Wuvincourt, cost the enemy very serious losses.

GERMAN REPORT. rADMIRAL"” 7 —PER WIRELESS PRESS.] LONDON, Nov 28. German official.—English tanks and infantry attacking westward of Bourlon collapsed. We temporarily lost Bourlon, but recaptured the villages and threw the enemy hack into Bourlon Wood.