THE WESTERN FRONT

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1918, Page 2

THE WESTERN FRONT

[ PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.-—COPYRIGHT.] BRITISH ACHIEVEMENTS. LONDON, September 22. Correspondents at Headquarters continue to detail the splendid achievements of British units, including the Guard, who bloodily repulsed a German counter atack at llavrincoiirt. Germans around Templeux Cuerard buried themselves deep in quarries and caves, which were honeycombed with machine-gun nests. British Yeoman worked round under cover of smoke screens, and cut them off. The Seventeenth Divisiin perhaps holds the record for a continuous advance. Since it attacked on the A acre this Division took Tliiepval, Cehniaben redoubt, Po/.ioros, Courcelette, Martinpuich, and finally crossed tho Canal du Nord, seized bridgeheads and established themselves in Gauche Wood. AMERICAN ARTILLERY PRAISED. LONDON, Sep. 22. Major-General Reed, commanding the Fifteenth Scottish Division, has highly praised tho American Artillery Brigade, for their effective co-operation with tho Scots.

GERMANS CREMATING DEAD. PARS, Sep. 22. A captured enemy order instructs doctors to burn the dead instead of burying them. A prisoner states he saw five hundred corpses incinerated in batches.

METZ BOMBED. (Received This Dav at 9.50. a.m.) NEW YORK, Sep. 23. British airmen have. Bombed Metz, sixteen tons were dropped.