BOURLON ABANDONED.
Clerer British Tactics. Received This Day, 10.50 a.m. London, Dec-embor 7. A British correspondent at the front states that the withdrawal from the Jionrlon salient was carried out with tliei greatest discipline. Success depended on tiro enemy's ignorance and the valour of the rearguards. The enemy became suspicious owing ■to till© strange silence and emptiness ol Bourlon wood. Later on groups crept forward: to the sugar factory on the Carnbra.i road. Large bodies now advanced! with fixed bayonets and fired, \ peering round andl evidently fearing a (trap. The- silence of the guns puzzled them. The artillerymen waited until the open ground was black with moving Germans and then at a pre-arranged signal tliey opened fire. The Germans were caught and badly punished,. A considerable body of men also assembled for a mua-ssed assault, but the artillery shattered tlicni in the sunken road. iWe now occupy secure positions taken from the enemy, with good observation and l strong lines behindl.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 December 1917, Page 3
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161BOURLON ABANDONED. Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 December 1917, Page 3
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