GERMAN RETREAT CONTINUES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1918, Page 5

GERMAN RETREAT CONTINUES.

40,000 PRISONERS TAKEN' London, August 5Sincev the Crown Prince began his retreat his armies have fallen back 20 miles and he has lost 40,000 prisoners. —Reuter. London, August 6. Correspondents on the Eranco-Ameri-can front emphasise the importance of the fact that the Marne salient has disappeared. German leadership during the retirement has been seen at its best. The troops have shown no sign of a broken 6pirit. False strategy from the outset involved a defeat. Villages between the Vesle and the Aisno are stil aflame, and the district reeks with the acrid stench of explosives, where the enemy has destroyed dumps'. The retirement steadily continues, and the Allied cavalry is meeting only rearguard screens. The roads northward of the Vesle are choked with transport progressing slowly owing to the deep mud.—iAus.-N.Z. Cable Assri.RETIREMENT IN THE NORTH. ALBERT EVACUATED, New York, August & The Germans are retiring north of La Bassee.—Aus.-Ni-Z. Calblo Assn. London, August 5. A' wireless German official message States: On both sides of Albert wo withdrew out posts without interference to the east bank of the Ancre.—: Aus.-N.Z. Cable Atsn. London, August 5. Mr. Percival Phillips says that the German retirement on a 12 mile front in the Albert sector apparently began on Thursday night. The enemy sent up signal lights all night in order to deceive the British. The correspondent understands that Albert has (been evacuated, but lying in a hollow exposed to fire observation from both sides is little more than a great shell and gaa trap.—•Aus.-N'.Z., OaJble Assn, * "