GERMAN OFFICIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1918, Page 5

GERMAN OFFICIAL.

DEFEATS AND REVERSES ADMITTED. Received Oct. 7, 7.30 p.m. London, Oct. <!, 525 p.m. A wireless German official message states:—We relinquished the projecting positions between Crevecoeur and Beanrevoir- The Anglo-French continued their attaoks between Le Catelet and northward of St. Quentin. The enemy retained B_eaurevoir and Mont Brehain. Eastward of Rheims and astride tlie Suippe, we evacuated the BrimontBerrti positions. - The Americans continned their strong attacks between the "Argonne and the Meuse, and advanced as far as the wooded heights northward of Epremont. Our troop* hitherto fighting in the fmiks of Pus Bulgarian army have been withdrawn, and are returning to headquarters. The German battalions fighting in Palest ine--beside £h» trnstv Turks were compelled to yield under the pressure of superior enemy forces, and are returning berond Damascus, northward*

EVACUATING BELGIAN COAST. HEAVY CUNS WITHDRAWN. Received Oct 7, 7-40 p.m. London, Oct. 0. Reports from Holland state that the Germans continue to withdraw their heavy guns and munitions from Zeebrugge, They are also destroying the docks at Bruges.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc,

SHORT OF HEAVY ARTILLERY. PROBABLE REASON FOR PEACE OFFER Received Oct. 8, 1.25 a.m. London, Oct. ft There are indisputable signs that the Germans are getting short of heavy field artillery and ammunition- JK,® have already captured one-quarter of the enemy artillery on the Western front.—Reutef