BRITISH STILL ADVANCING.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1917, Page 5

BRITISH STILL ADVANCING.

IMPORTANT ROOTY 'I'AKKMWAR IN THE OPEX. VERY SMALL LOSSES. SKVEX COUXTBR-ATTACKS STOPPED. United Press. Received Xov. 23, 8.20 p.m. London. Xov. 22. The United Press correspondent says tlmt the British are still advancing. Tiie cavalry is preceded by tanks and followed by the infantry. The correspondent believes that the limv.bor of guns taken considerably exceeds the figures announced, while the captures of ma-chine-guns, trench mortars and other booty are important. Present operations smack of old time war in the open, with cavalry on the move alone roads, across_fields, jumping trendies, and following tracks which the tanks have made through the entanglements. Our losses are very small. The tanks, Infantry, and artillery combined in stopping seven counter-attacks 'before, the latter got fairly under wciali. Four occurred in t.lic region of Bitllccoiivt, where the Tiritish took the principal defence line r.f the TTindenburg svstcrn and three south-wp«t of Oambrai. Of the latter the first was against Novelles, Ihe second between Noycilcs and Masniercs, and the third against Masnieres. The weather '.a mild and foggy.