WESTERN FRONT.
BRitiSH LINE ADVANCED. 4 -AGAINST CONSIDERABLE OPPOSITION. ; . _ "? Received Oct. 20. 8.45 p.m. London, Oct. 28. Sir Douglas Haig reports: As the re- ; suit of local operations southward of. Valenciennes we advanced our line between fiie Rhonclle river and the. Scheldt in face of considerable opposition. Sir Douglas ITaig's aviation report states: On Sunday we dropped 12$ tons of bombs, shot down 10 enemy mae'hines and drove down 10. Eleven British machines are missing.—Ausf N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Router. PLIGHT OF REFUGEES. A MOVING MASS OF MISERY. Received Oct, 30, 2 a-ra. London, Oct- 29. The Belgian Relief Commission state that 14,000 refugees from Belgium and Northern France have arrived in Holland, and thousands more are pouring in. Halting-places for the night are fixed a'ong the mote from Northern France to the Dutch frontier. The refugees are in desperate needThere are also hundreds of thousands of refugees in the territory still occupied destitute, representing a moving mass of misery, largely of children and aged men and women. Influenza is alarmingly prevalent amongst them.— rHis.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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177WESTERN FRONT. Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 5
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