Somme Battle Definitely Won.
BACK TO lIINDRXB URG LINE. Received this day, 9.50 a.m. • London, September 2. Wio United Press eorrespoiidei<i says that the latest battle of the Somnw is definitely won. I'hero remains only a Ji ;tle pros -tiro here audi there until HindCnbirrg's divisions are again all behind till© Hindenburg lino. The German counter-attacks about Peronne merely show that the (J ci-man® object to ';hc pace which the Australians are setting for if they accepted fJlio pace it would ineau losing thousands instead of hundreds. Nobody here believes in i';he invulnerability of the Hindenburg line. The iNow Zealandiens, after a marvellous advance to the edge of Bapaume, refused to consider the proposition that -hey bo relieved before tilie city was actually taken. SAVED. Received this day, 9.5 «■. m. New York September 2. Tlio Navy Department announces that 22 missing members of the crew of the naval armed guard aboard 'ilie Cudaliy, sunk in European waters, have been raved. They were picked up by British steamers.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 September 1918, Page 3
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167Somme Battle Definitely Won. Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 September 1918, Page 3
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