Bitter Struggle for-Switch Line.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 September 1918, Page 3

Bitter Struggle for-Switch Line.

BRILLIANT COCKNEYS. Received ichis day at noon. London, "September 2. Ue liter's correspondent, writing on Sunday evening from clip .British headquarters , stated: , Yesterday saw lihe fighting front of tlio British armies from nortili of Voormezelle to south of Peronne hi action. On both flanks our troops advanced victoriously, but ill the centre tliey were bitterly contested in the vast meeli work of defences guarding: the iDrocou'rt line. The batlile round Bu'lleeourt; though resulting only in slight territorial changes, has been particularly bitter. Early yesterday morning :he attack here was resumed and tlio formidable station redoubt, which was previously taken audi lost, was recaptured. The Loudoners advancing on a front of 2500 yards supported by tanks once again brilliantly emphasised the longaccepted truth that as a soldier the Cockney is second iho none in the world. The Germans clearly anticipated the attacks, for at dawn they opened! tho heavies):, barrage of a considerable depth. On the right another British division was fighting its way valiantly gh'rou.gh the honeycombed defences of Ecoust and long after the assaulting wave® had gained their objectives mopping-up parties /would unearth machine gun burrows containing many dismounted troopers of the Fifteenth Dragoons, which were hurriedly tJliirown in to replace infantry. This is -an indication of the serious shortage of „German reserves.