MUTINY IN HUN NAVY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1917, Page 5

MUTINY IN HUN NAVY

EVESTERN ATTACK.

WIDESPREAD AND ORGANISES SEDITION

SUPPRESSED WITH DIFFICULTY

PAN - GERMANISM STRONGER THAN EVER FURTHER ACTIVITY ON WEST FRONT

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strengthened the cellars in the village since Thursday, when we halted at the cross-roads. This convinced the German regimental commander that he had still a fighting chance of turning lis out,but before dawn the Germans had been chased out of the cellars in the outskirts of the village and ran along the broken street and reassembled in the brewery. Here machine-guns filled the apertures of the sand-bagged brewery walls, and stubborn fighting followed throughout the morning, 'but the English troops early in the afternoon gained a in the brewery, which was finally captured and the garrison killed or taken prisoner.

FIGHTING CONTINUES.

gEBBIFIC HAN-TO-MAN CLASHES

JBEMENDOUS aerial activity. Received Oct. 11, 5.5 p.m. ' London, Oct. 10. Tie United Press correspondent states |&At a picket of Germans in the Daisy •SVood is still holding out, but fast dwindling. The fighting continues at rolderahoek chateau. ' < , Hand-to-hand fighting occurred in the Celtic Wood, of which the Australians BoW have possession. Bavonet? were freely used in terrific man-to-man plashes. Tta troops never had a harder fettle than with these Germans, who, liowever, were unable to make a general founter-attack. The best they could do pere feeble local reactions. Tile British advanced posts in the pentfe and on the right retired slightly At night in order to better consolidate. Dawn brought tremendous aerial activity. Scores of planes were fighting pmidat a itorm of shrapnel, and ma-riiine-guming the German infantry and Jiarrassing the enemy balloons and batSteries. Tie rain later blotted out the £iew. 5 The United Press correspondent says jfcat the Australians, after a terrific Bayonet fight/ gained possession, of Celtic Wood, south-east of Broodseinde.

SOME TROOPS FALL BACK. OWING TO UNFAVORABLE GROUND. NET ADVANCE 2000 YARDS I Received Oct. 11, 10.5 p.m. London, Oct. llT* Mr. Phillips say 3 that yesterday's original success is somewhat modified between Broodseinde and Thorout railway, embracing the area of our attack from Passchendaele to the southern border of Houthulst forest. Some of our troops have fallen back to a line which is still much in advance of that held yesterday morning. Tlife relinquishment is due to the unfavorable ground, which in some places is an impassable quagmire. Nowhere did the enemy drive us out. The waterlogged condition of the country and the large number of snijjers ensconced in the trees and the concrete redoubts at Passchendaele retarded our progress. It is impossible to give an exact definition of the present line between Poelcapelle and Brodseinde. Some of the fortified farms that were cleared yesterday have been reoccupied by the enemy, but on an average our net advance is two thousand yards. GRIT OF THE LANCASHIRES. SUPERHUMAN TRIALS OVERCOME. Received Oct. 11, 10.5 p.m. ■United Service. London, Oct. 11. The battle of Poelcappelle will always be famous for the grit of the LancaShires, who in marching to the attack endured superhuman trials. At nightfall they crossed the Yser canal and marched miles over a country formless and featureless, lighted only by gun flashes. The night was pitcli dark. The men stumbled on through infinite tangles of sinister country and fell in foul shell holes. It was impossible to get food, drink, or rest- otherwise they would be late for the 'battle. The troops marched thus for eleven hours and arrived in time, and, despite exhaustion, went over with the rest, and fought a great battle, winning their objectives and withstanding counter-attacks. , WORK OF THE AVIATORS. OVER 2000 GERMANS CAPTURED. J I Received Oct. 'll, 9 p.m.- i \ London, Oct. IT; Sir Douglas Haig reports: Our aviatora did much work on the battle front on Tuesday, despite the strong gale and thick clouds. The artillery was thus enabled to deal with the enemy's new gun positions and other suitable targets, and kept touoh with our infantry. All day long the enemy troops were harassed at every opportunity by machine-gun and many bombs were dropped on Roulers, Courtrai, Menin, and Ledeghem stations, causing a number of explosions. We brought down six German aeroplanes. Two of ours are missing. In the course of the day attacks on our new .positions in the neighborhood of the Ypres-Stades railway led to local fighting, but did not affect any material ■«hange in the situation. The enemy ( Bigde no further counter-attacks.

A COMPLETE SURPRISE.

GERMANS CAXJGET AMD PUNISHED. THE ADVANCE DESCRIBED. London, Oct. 10. Mr. Percivat Phillips writes: —The fourth German Army has been' defeated kgaifl. The battle was another unqualified success, and prisoners are surrendering in large numbers. I We again caught the German divisions fn the process of relief, and punished (them severely. The Tain and mud made the enemy 'believe that another enterprise was impossible, and it was a complete surprise. Our troops fought in swamps apd pools, and were sometimes fcmried by shells, but the unquenchable spirit of victory carried them through. |!oine marched for nearly twelve hours Just before going into battle, yet they fought like lions. ' The attack was less a great battle an a great readjustment of the battle vront. There were two simultaneous advances. The larger operation was the .awing forward of our left towards Pasjfchendaele village, thereby easing the Mlient of which Broonseinde was the {pronounced point. This involved the (capture of the remainder of Poelcapelle Village and an advance among the wilderness of ruined farms on the western 'spurs, of the Passchendaele Ridge in the direction of Houthulst Forest. On the [tight battle front we straightened the [erratic line around Reutelbeke and "Poljperhock Chateau. The fighting between iPoelcappelle and Houthulst Wood was handicapped iby Jnarghes caused by shellfire shooting away the bonks of the Broeribeck. 'ilia country here was a. sheet of stagnant yellow water, and the long irregular elope of slippery ooze beyond was cut by the shattered embankment of the Thorput railway and the Xangemarck road, fell liberally planted with enemy redoubts jThe Thorout railway embankment gave lover to the machine-guns and a number pf pill-boxes replaced the railway station. Here we caught the German divisions Relieving each other. Or\e had 'been hurtried from the Argonne In motor-Tmses and throat into the forest during the night. The troops they relieved had been lying in the rain and mud since the ]ast attack, and a great number of the were ill. There battalions were so Prions to get away that they failed to ife the necessary information to the ygonne division. The latter knew noting about the diapositim «* the British Opposite, and the men who survived the fiirrage surrendered immediately. The first and second objectives were pined on time, and by eight o'clock the troops of the British Isles and another eland of the Empire were break, "astSg among the vanquished redoubts, ere they rested for a time before going <o the final goal. The Germans evacuated some pill-boxes as our men came up. Che Germans admitted they had been »dly pounded with the Stokes mortars. The French, on the British left, suffered even more from mud, but were splendidly protected by their own artilery. • Stiff fighting occurred at Poelcappelle. Che Germans occupied the eastern half of the ruins, also the '••miins of the brew- , !ry on the .Westvoosebeke road just j dear of the vi'Uge. The Germans h&4 J

Our troops actively organised the captared positions, despite tie difficulties of ike ground. Tuesday's prisoners hitherto reported number 3038, of whom -29 are officers. They also include 400 taken .by the French. We captured a few field-guns and a number of machine-guns and trench mortars.