MR PERRIS’S ACCOUNT.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1918, Page 2

MR PERRIS’S ACCOUNT.

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THE ANZACS IN ACTION,

LONDON, July 24

Mr Perris, writing on Tuesday mot*,, ing, says lie visited tho British divisions fighting at the head of the Ardrc Ynloly, in what may be called the battle of Mareaux. Here some Anzacs are fighting with the Highlanders and English units.

The Anzacs are . full of confidence and are fighting successfully forward.

FOCH’S COUNTER STROKE

LONDON, July 24. Mr Perris writes that if the sensational phase of General Foch’s counter stroke is over ,its results are not yet fully visible. The. enemy is still holding out doggedly, hut at a great: disadvantage and is making an effort to reach positions which offer a permanently defensible front. All the enemy’s chief centres, southward of the Aisne are now under Allied artillery fire. It is one of the most, frightful warnings in military history of the peril of an insufficiently guarded flank. THE ALLIED PINCERS. ® LONDON, July 24. Now that the French have crossed 'the Soissons-Chatcau Thierry road, only nineteen miles separate wherein to retreat, or bring up reserves of inen ammunition, and food . A hundred thousand Germans arc isolated despite the clever manner in which tho Gennaus arc sacrificing the rearguards to enable the larger units to escape General Foch’s pincers. ,