Bapaume Not Yet Ours.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 August 1918, Page 3

Bapaume Not Yet Ours.

NEW ZEALANDERS REACxI INJN ER DEFENCES.

PATROLS T(IWX

| Received this day, 10 a.m. London, August 20. Mr Percivai Phillips repoi'.s that as soon as the British had cleared Mirauimont, the Is e\v ZealiMulers with the assistance of tanks attacked Loupart wood en route to Bapaume. They found little opposition within but the (reaches beyond were full of Bavarians. The ew Zealanders parsed over these in two hours and dad not wait to gather their prisoners but pushed ahead and attacked Grevillers, an old acquaintance which gave little trouble. By the middle of the altera >ou they had begun fighting lor Bapaume's inner defences. There were good trenches .utfund the suburbs and well wired slopes. Meanwhile other troops climbed the slopes before Pozieros with quickened pulse in order to gaze on the Promised Land behind. They found Posdt'res no longer the same. The old ruins are gone and there are Jiew rums now of British hutments and tumbled cemeteries. The . German artillery beyond Bapaumie on Sunday was energetically trying to counteract the enemy infantry's instability, b it the barrage nowhere delayed our advanc;?. Airmen report seeing patrols inside Bapaume, but these are probably reconnaissances. UTTER FAILURE. Received this day, 9.10 a.m!. London, August 20. A German counter-attack at Soissons utterly failed.