GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1918, Page 3

GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS.

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(Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, 'Sept. 3.

General Haig reports Monday’s operations south of tho Scarpe were 1 completely successful. The enemy was : heavily defeated in his prepared defences" of the Droeourt-Queant system with the result that lie is retiring this morning along practically the whole , batlilcfront. In Monday’s battle, besides inflicting heavy losses, we prisonered about ten thousand. _ Our troops are now advancing and are reported to have entered Pronivillo, Dovnitis, and Bertincourt. The Canadians bowed the greatest skill and courage on Monday in storming the Droeourt-Queant lines which had been perfected during the last eighteen months and provided the most formid- ' able obstacle, furnished with every <levice of modern engineering. The defences here were reinforced to such a. degree that on a front of eight thousand yards, eleven divisions were identified. ’ Undeterred by the strength _ of the enemy’s defences and organisation the Canadians assisted admirably by English troops on the lift, carried all before them. Southward of Canadian corps, English, Scottish and naval troops of the Seventeenth Corps_ under Lieut-General Sir Charles Ferguson, performed no less a gallant and arduous task in storming the junction of the DrocourCQueantf and Hindenburg systems. These wore of the most formidable character, hut the troops swept over and around them encircling Queant from the north. As a result, this important pivot fell into our hands by nightfall. Tank corps assisted materially in the success of the operations. FURTHER CAPTURES. I NEAR NEUVE CHAPPELLS. Received this day nt< 2.36 p.m.,) NEW YORK, Sep. 3. The British have captured Lcs-Mets-nil and Riehebourg Saint Vaast. ( Our troops aro now near Neuvo Chappelle.