GERMANS ON THE JUMP.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1918, Page 6

GERMANS ON THE JUMP.

CHEERFUL BOOHE (PRISONERS. London, August 20. Mr Perry Robinson (Times correspondent), telegraphing on Friday, said: ''The most remarkable feature of all the latest operations is the comparative ease of our successes. The British losses continue incredibly small, and the prisoners taken, in the majority of cases, largely exceed our casualties. "The enemy seems to be uverdoing Ludendorff's exhortation not to sacrifice lives in attempting to hold or to recover ground of only sentimental prestige and value. "It is rare to meet prisoners, even noncoms, who are not rejoicing to be taken alive. I myself heard a'prisoner declare that he believed every soldier in Germany would ite glad to be taken prisoner. ~. "Some of the stories of the costliness of - the enemy's counter - attacks are almost pitiable. A new division, unfamiliar with the ground, attacked the Lancasliires, who practically annihilated two battalions, and shattered two others. Over 400 German dead were counted in a small area.

"In another case the Germans were permitted to approach close to the New Zealanders' front without resistance. Suddenly the whole of the New Zealanders' machine-guns laid down a barrage behind the enemy and cut off their escape. Many were killed and 300 survivors were compelled to rush forward and surrender under the contracting barrage. "In a third case a eourtor-attilck by a Guards unit got nowhere, the attackers being completely wiped out.