ON THE WEST FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1918, Page 3

ON THE WEST FRONT.

TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION’] .EVACUATING GHENT. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Oct, 28. Unconfirmed reports from the frontier state the Germans have evacuated Ghent. „ .

FOILED INTENTIONS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 28. Grigg, the New York “World” correspondent on the British front, says the colossal nature of the preparations the Germans made on the west Fland ors front for the intended base for operations last summer against the Channel Ports ,shelled by the Allies, can. now be estimated, since the enemy lias withdrawn. The Germans had stored fifteen hundred tons -of ammunition,, and many thousand tons of supplies in one corps area of Lys salient. Thesc-mu j nitions, valued at many million dollars, » were destroyed when the Germans were compelled to retreat. The enemy also constructed 108 miles of light railway at a cost of more than a million dollars. They made 180 miles of new road hods, and erected eighteen new aerodromes, seventeen new landing grounds, and l established seventy new hospital units. I

BELLU WOOD CAPTURED. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The Americans have finally captured Bellu Wood.

AMERICAN CAPTURES. i (Received this dnv at I 00 p.mA i WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. j General Pershing reports in the first jj month of flic present battle the Americans have captured 20,000 prison- 1 evs and 1/50 guns. ij ACROSS THE PTAVE. (Received This Hay at 12.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 28. The British are four miles across tin Pin vo.