CANADA.
THE PASSCHENDALE BATTLE. WON BY CANADIANS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ottawa, August 13. At Ankingstono (Ontario), General Sir Archibald Mac Donald, defending General Currie agajnst the criticism of permitting undue losses at the capture of Passchendaele, said the Canadian losses were the lowest, while the percentage of gains was the highest. The Canadians captured Fasschendaele after the Australians, New Zealanders, and British had failed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The General did not explain that the Australians, Now Zealanders, and British were forced into a veritable moraßS, that the enemy's wire was not cut, that our field guns sank in the mud, and that later on, when the Canadians attacked, the ground was more suitable, the guna made no mistake in. cutting the wire, and that the necessary artillery support was given.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1919, Page 5
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