WESTERN FRONT.
AMERICANS' HARD TASK. BEST GERMAN DIVISION'S. MASSED AGAINST TEEM. VERY IMPORTANT GAINS. 'Received Oct. 18, 2.35 p.m. London, Oct. J7. Reuter's corespondent at American headquarters, writing on ICtli October, states that the American advance by which the breach in the Kriemhilde positions was "widened, was made in face of a most stubborn resistance, including desperate counter-attacks, supported by heavy artillerying. The American gains were accomplished by encircling, not storming, the objectives. German machine-guns filled tile woods and the heights, and deluges of gas shells compelled the Americans to fight for iliours in their gas masks, while the vast extent of >vire was insufficiently cut by gunfire, and, enfiladed by the enemy, held up the advance. Yet the Americans filtered through to the summits.
A captured German order states: "The Fatherland depends upon resistance in the Verdun sectors. Since the Americans crossed the Kriemhilde position it is essential to prevent their cutting the German communications, wlliich would oblige the entire western line to yield." Hence the best German divisions were densely massed against the Americans.— Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1918, Page 5
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