IMPORTANT REDOUBT CAPTURED.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 223, 30 September 1916, Page 5

IMPORTANT REDOUBT CAPTURED.

BiiXTISH CONSOLIDATE THE

GROUND

.*N UNSOLICITED TESTI-

MONIAL.

TRIBUTE TO BRITISH

INFANTRY

Australian and N.Z. CVhlf> Assn^iation

(IlecevvedSept. £9. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept, 29. ■ Sir DoiiEclas Hais.s reports: '.We! r-npntred -the Uulk of Ihe Schwaben Redoubt, on .a crest fiye> hundred' yards 'northward of Tliiepval. Sch'wa'ben !3Redoubt is the highest jironnfl ;on ■ftihei'hiepvai spur, in-full i-iew. of the 'northern valley of the Anere..

We (Slse^vheTe coiiPrlidated our ground srnd advanced line, north ■•md nortJsr-east of Courcelette.

Our aeraplanes ..grvatly, damaged enemy batteries, and rilso attacked troops and transport with machinegun fire. '-'.-. . A captured report of the fighting on the Somme, issued the com-

1 -mand-er oi! s*- Germaai «ovps v so^s:-— ' xTlie Britesfe infant-iy are sjaart in •atbaofc, ixW^gely ' because of their immense -confidenco in theisc. great: ai-tilleiy superiority.,! One; must admit skill wiin which they consolidate their new positions,; . They.. «ho\v .^.-eat tenacity in .'defence^ Small \ £»ai itwß orioo^ ■estapli&h.ed'1, with1 ihachitiei-giiins «Si' the ■oorner ■• of a wood or an a group ol houses aife' yein T.diffiea!t. to dislodge." Srir Dpugbfs"Haig continues: T4fe foßowing s««atence sl*o\vs the. cffietits of oui" artilery : ''Hitherto our :4nStraetions feom expesieaice of defence >aad attack "were'based, oh a.cawifiUJytrench system. The 'itroops oat -the. Sonimo front f©siß«d no Frenches whatever."