AISNE VALLEY OPERATIONS.
PITCHED BATTLE FOUGHT. Wellington, Thursday. The Government has received an extensive cable from the High Commissioner continuing the account published on September 18th covering the psriod from September 14th to 18th:— On the 14th tha Germans were making a determined resistance along the Aisne. The opposition first thought it to be a rearguard action, not entailing material delay upon our progress, hut it has developed and proved, more serious than was anticipated, tha Germans acting to gain time for some strategic operation. It may not De their main stand. Fighting is such as to make it indistinguishable from what is known as a pitched battle, though the enemy showed signs oE disorganisation during the early days of their retirement.
Whether it was originally intended by them to defend the position they took as Htrenuously as they have donp, or whether the delay gained for tbem by the artillery during the artillery during tha twelfth and thirteenth has enabled them to develop their resistance and reiaforce their line to ah extent not originally contemplated, cannot yet he said.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 707, 26 September 1914, Page 5
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180AISNE VALLEY OPERATIONS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 707, 26 September 1914, Page 5
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