BRITISH ADVANCE IN ST. QUENTIN ZONE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6853, 18 April 1917, Page 3

BRITISH ADVANCE IN ST. QUENTIN ZONE.

4 .;; Heavy Lo***s Infected on Ger|ft ' ia Bapaume-Cambria Area **■* The High Commis'sioneP reports: if/ * Londoa April 15,9 35pm *-fe' A British official report; states : ?V s j»orth-west of St. Queofcin we have '-" waioed "round to ihc east and north It tfrieourt, capturing some prisoners. ■ * v^e have also progressed in the -- - B^bourhood of Havrincourt Wood - " of Lievin, wbereiu we are '. approaching the outskirts of Lena. v " WeDomy attacke 1 this morning ~ " issride the BdpAums-Cainbrai Uoad " ytith great determination, uader our -•' ' heavy fi^. la addition to 300 made - , priaoners the Oerdiaus left 1,500 \" dead before our positions, \ The High Commissioner reports : :Jt^ ' London, April 16, 12.15 pm A - General Haig reports :—We cap- >& | arc d Villeret southward of li:ir%\ ■ *V" court, during vhe night and pr. ; - gressed north-westwards of Lens, * Fall particulars of the booty captured at Lieven and Souchez River are not available, bub it is exesedi- ingly large, including six-in,ch naval J*~ gBUS, tnousandd of rounds of am- " munition of all calibres, and transport material. The Bavarian losses in. the recent : - fighting have been more heavy, onethird at the total prisoners taken z being Bavarians. Germans Claim Capture of > ' Prisoners. '-** T/ia High Ooomiissionei 1 reports : London, April 16, 6 30 a ra "Z A German official report states: 1 To tin sanguinary losses. *he ' Aua- [~, traliflHS have suffered must be added ;-~. the loss of 373 p-isouors. Fifteen '"-." machine guns have been brought in. '_ Twenfey-two guvs have also been captared or rendeud useless by exu plosion. t%- ~ British Troops in Lens f- r K- 3 " London, April 15 -.;; message from Mr Philip Qibbs *tt^^na^ tne southern subarbs of '^"~* ten^were successfully captured. The «■' - Briiiab, avoidrug a direct assault on r* "thft^l, crept round on the left; and ~ uwtt4^he high ground on the northtre^''iffeetice they captured the JBois'de&Buumont. The enemy recQreting~ from his first panic, sent Bacir^feOQp to the trenches and t miotuift gun redoubts in, the western >¥ r iufawbs, finding that) there was in-?i-r Bpfficiei»fc tiuie lo prepare rearward - positions between Drocourt and i^VfQaeant Meaawhilo two thousand |-Mromw», children and old men, unable escape in the iuter ral, are now ft ~t»kiog refuge in cellais, enduring the j^ tgdnies' of bombardment. " The,Gerftians quitted Lie via in such \p f Imto that we captured vast quantities a^ ofbombSi trench mortars, and shells. %' The German counter ■■'attack ■at fr^ Lagnicoort is clear evidenoe of the auxiety for this portion of 'f -The village faces the iuaporI tanfe JBastion of Queanr.