STRIKING GERMAN ADMISSIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5

STRIKING GERMAN ADMISSIONS

A DESPATCH THAT PASSED THE BERLIN) -CENSOR. (Australian aJid N".Z. Cable Association.) (R«c. Sept. 19, 8.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, .Sept. 18. German censors permitted Von Weigand to caible to the -New York World a report on the fighting on the Som-me, in which remarkaible admissions are made of the Allies' success. Von Weigand, in a despatch dated •Berlin, 16th September, states, "In a tremendous attack, splendidly carried out by the French and the English, the Allies drove (back the Germans by what was probably-, the hardest and most effective blow in the Somnie offensive. Following an indescribably terrible attack, the Allies on a narrow front of 12 miles carried the German lines from near Thiepval on the north to Rancourt on the south-east. This is the best team work the Allies have yet carried out. The Tillies drive was directed against the German lines which have 'been harassed and wearied by days of uninterrupted ■battering. The Germans made a gallant and desperate stand-, hut were unable to withstand the terrific onslaught of the English and French divisions who were in overwhelming luim'bers on such a narrow front. I consider it probable that the Allies will liave further local successes and that the Germans may fall hack at a number of other points. "la view of the greatly exposed situation of Perorale and Comhles, I would not be surprised if they fell into the hands of the Allies." The despatch is abruptly uut short at this point by the censor.