FUTILE ATTACKS SOUTH-EAST OF ARRAS.
INCESSANT FIGHTING BETWEEN SOMME AND AVRE. (Received 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. General Sir Douglas Haig reports: North of the Somme, after a lull yesterday the battle broke out afresh this morning. The enemy repeated his costly and unsuccessful assaults in the region of Boiry Becqueville and Boyelles, seven miles south-east of Arras, and immediately northward of the Somme, all of which, though delivered with fresh troops in considerable strength, were thrown back with heavy losses. Our positions are intact. We took a number of prisoners. Heavy shelling of the defences eastward of Arras accompanied the above attacks. South of the Somme and between the Somme and the Avrc, fighting continued incessantly, attacks and counter-attacks occurring at frequent intervals. The enemy forced a way to Demuin in the morning, but is 'held up on the western outskirts of the village.— (A. and ISJZ. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 77, 1 April 1918, Page 5
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