PHILIP GIBBS’ ACCOUNT.
rAUSTRALIAN A' N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON, Nov. 2. Mr Phillip Gibbs, describing fighting nt Valenciennes, says the Canadians ad vanccd under shelter of smoko shells, - which made a dense white fog, and then put the Germans in a haze so thick that they could not see three paces ahead. Their machine-gunners could not fmd targets nnd were as helpfess as if blankets were thrown over their heads. Some units surrendered directly the Canadians arrived The officers prisonerod acknowledge the situation is hopeless now that Austria is out of the war. ruin Around Audenarde, says Mr. Gibbs, we are fighting, among villages and farmsteads. We have stopped all use of cas owing to civilans, but the Uer mans are using it daily. Many babies women and girls, were found dead, dy ing, or blinded in Flemish villages W < distribute gas-masks captured fron the Germans among the villagers, bit thev are of little use without long tiain ing. ______
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1918, Page 3
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