DOMINATING HEIGHT STORMED.
FURTHER PROGRESS MADE. IMPORTANT SPUR TAKEN. OVER 100 GUNS CAPTURED. Received Xov. 25, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 24. Sir Douglas Haig reports that successful operations yesterday were curried out west of Cambrai. After severe fighting and stubborn resistance we stormed the important and dominating high ground about Bourlon Wood and east thereof. Some progress was made ir. the neighborhood of Fontaine Notre Dame to the west of Bourlon Wood. Further progress was made along ike llindenburg lines astride the Canal du Nord, in the neighborhood of Moeuvres, while further west, (between Moeuvres and Queant, the London Scottish captured an important spur, (jiving obssrvation over the Hindcnburg line to the north and west. In the neighborhood of Bullccourt we gained further ground during the night, capturing a strong point with guns. Since November 20 we have captured over 100 guns, including several heavies, up to S-inch. PRUSSIAN MASSED ATTACKS. BROKEN BY BRITISH GUNS. FIERCE ATTACK AT CLOSE QUARTERS. FISTS AND BROKEN BRICKS USED. United Press. Received Nov. 25, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 24. Mr. Phillips reports that a counterattack yesterday againts Masnicres came from the north-east, the Prussian Guard advancing in solid lines. We awaited thorn, and our massed machineguns proved better weapons .than flesh and blood. The Prussians, when checked, halted and' broke, while none got nearer than 1000 yards. Later other Guards came on from the Cambrai railway, but they never gained impetiis. A third attack at Noyelles resulted in a bitter close ryiarters 'struggle, lasting i two hours, but equally unsuccessful, though the enemy fought well and proved that they have not forgotten how to fight open warfare. Both sides used bayonets, and there were manv single , combats with fists and broken bricks where the men had lost their weapons. BRUTALITY OF HUN OFFICERS. CRIPPLES AND SICK; MEN MADE TO FIGHT. ENEMY CONCENTRATING AT CAMBRAI. COUNTER-ATTACKS CRUSHED. MASSED WAVES MOWN DOWN. Received Nov. 25, 5.5 p.m , London, Nov, 24. Mr. Philip Gibbs states that when we smashed through the Hindenburg line on Tuejday the German High Command, as soon as they got the news of what had happened), hurried reinforcements in omnibuses from the camps near Cambrai. They were so hard pressed that they actually cleared the camps of cripples and convalescents and hurled patients into the fighting line. It was a brutally stuped assault, as the men were too ill to fight, and are now'too ill to stand in the prisoners' cages, Mr. Gibbs conversed with one on a X stretcher, in the last stages of consumption, who has been sent to an isolation hospital. The reinforcements included the First Guards reserve from Lens. The Germans are rushing all their available troops, in order to make a stand round Cambrai. Our men had no walkover after the first surprise. The Germans holding the villages and woods behind the Hindenbnrg line fought hard and well and endeavored to beat us back with many counter-attacks. Our gunfire mowed down a heavy counter-attack ndrth-east of Masnieres, where the Germans advanced, as during 1914, in massed fotmation, waves appearing shoulder to shoulder. Another similar attack was attempted at Marcoing, but the Germans, meeting our fire, dropped into trenches and never reappeared. Noyelles thrice changed hands. There was fierce street, house, and cellar fighting, Germans snipers being posted on the roofs and in trees. The Northumberland Yeomanry, while skirmishing at Creveoourt, discovered a bolt i of wire. They dismounted and craivle.d j through and captured the guns. Tho troops in the Bullccourt sector captured a great tunnel at Queant.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1917, Page 5
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590DOMINATING HEIGHT STORMED. Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1917, Page 5
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