GREAT ALLIED SUCCESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1918, Page 2

GREAT ALLIED SUCCESS.

BRITISH TAKE 11,000" PRISONERS. ONLY 9000 CASUALTIES. FRENCH CONTINUE SUCCESS. [rEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] (Received This- Day at 9.50. a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug 9. London messages state the Germans are retreating on the Flanders'front, and are evacuating their position in Lys Valley. e The British have taken fourteen thousand prisoners. The majority whereof were captured by the Australians and Canadians. ! The British have reached the Fresales Vauvillers Lihon line. - , The French have taken Fresnoy. The Allies have taken two hundred guns and it is reported a German Divisional general has been captured. Germans on the Amiens front aro blowing up ammunition dumps. British casualties are only nine thousand. Allied airmen have blown up a bridge over the Somme. French troops north-west of Montdidier advanced four miles and captured three thousand prisoners. The Anglo-French advance has reached a maximum depth of eleven miles. British cavalry are within a mile of Chaulnes. Canadian cavalry have surrounded a large force of Germans.

ON THE MARNE. ' (Received This Dav at 9.50. a.m.) WASHINGTON, -August 9. The Allies on the Marne front have regained fifteen hundred square kilometres of territory, and two hundred towns and villages have been recovered. The Allied front has been shortened by thirty three miles. The Germans used thirteen divisions to cross the Ala rue and used seventeen in retreating therefrom. Additional reinforcements from Flanders have reached the Vesle. Unitel States Army officers rejoice at Haig’ blow and declare it completes the evidence of Allies control of the initiative. General Foch has no intention to allow Ludendorff any respite;, wherein to organise a new offensive.

TO DEFEND THE RHINE. (Received This Dny at 9.50. a.m.) NEW YORK, August 9. 'A correspondent on the American front reports that information has reached the Allies that the last, stand of an army of half a million picked troops is being formed by the ‘Kaiser’s orders solely to defend the Rhine. » French military opinion is satisfied that the Germans must oxacuato Mont Didier.