GERMANS SAID TO BE SACKING ST. QUENTIN.
CAPTURE MEANS BREAKING OF HINDENBURG LINE.
(Received 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, April 13. Mr. Wood, the United Press Association correspondent, states that the French have reached the suburbs of St. Quentin. He asserts that the capture of St. Gobain and St. Quentin, according to French strategists, will mean the breaking of the Hindenburg line. The Germans are believed to be engaged in sacking St. Quentin. Many fires are reported. Prisoners assert that Prince Eitel Friedrich, the Kaiser's second son, ordered the destruction. The Paris "Journal" recounts the exploit of twelve British infantrymen who penetrated the enemy's line on Monday night, dug in and slept till morning, when they discovered a German battery fifty metres away They bombed and bayoneted the artillerymen and seized the battery.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 5
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