MR PERRIS’S ACCOUNT.
TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION FRENCH GENERAL’S, SUCCESS. (Received This Day at 10.85. a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 28. Mr George Perris, writing fron French headquarters, says Generals De heney, Mnngin and Guillaumnt have decisively beaten the Germans, thong] the enemy employed considerable effectives and the German positions were covered by the Oise and Serre. Mangin has broken across the northern end of the marshes, capturing Vesles, Caumont, and Picrrepont, while the Fifth army attacked twelve miles of the Hnnding line and have broken it to a depth of three ' miles capturing Saint Quentija 1c Petit, despite five successive wire fields, five ranges of trenches with machine-gun posts ,anti-tank minefield. The whole German defences in northern Champagne are endangered. Over five thousand prisoners were taken, though this is but the beginning of a great victory.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1918, Page 3
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135MR PERRIS’S ACCOUNT. Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1918, Page 3
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