LATEST WAR NEWS.
HOLDING THE LINE. DOGGED RESISTANCE "WESTWARD OF ALBERT. INQUIRY INTO RETREAT FROM ST. QUJ-NTIN. (Received 2.35 p.m.) LOXDOX, April 5. This evening the British, south-west-ward of Albert, are strongly holding the railway embankment, thwartins" the enemy's determined effort to advance to the highway to Amiens, via Corbie. The French frustrated a German attempt to reach the Amiens-Clermont railway, inflicting prodigious losses. The "Daily News" states that an inquiry is being held into the retreat ot | the fifth army from St. Qnentin. The French have taken over tbe line as far as the river Avre.—(L'nited Service.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 82, 6 April 1918, Page 6
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