GREAT FRENCH OFFENSIVE STARTED.

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

GREAT FRENCH OFFENSIVE STARTED.

- Germins Caught in Their Own v . Wire at Lagnicourt. it , Neuters Telegrams i: Kec April 17, 6 15 a m |f * £ Londoa, April 16 fv - from headquarters that ,f a *fw»fc French offensive was started „ <HJh\s morning ran through out\ army Ukkwildfire and evoked the greatest I ->„ % A,correspondent states that the '' **v fi*P*ttrßji six-mob uaval guns,-: men*V^oo^m the comuauniqu^s as being : ;J«»pl6yed, were effectively used against |g| Other booty included J| of eight-inch shells, jw bombs, high explosive^ aud steel rails I *■* bribing the counter-attack of •* '? pficollrt» » correspondent says the I ,M«TO»U8 were caught in their own j « was not cut in that] v, *tw%n. They nere thus forced p "J* Bl>3 ivhile they tau wildly up *}* **• oWli tryiug to find a passage wfel^* 880 * firi«g with deliberate aim, fej -?*«*«»m dowu in hundreds.- The ■^"tetofy of the liflo fire was uu- /( is™ sbce tl c days of the Marne, o**} of our meu fired one hun9£ft«w. founds. The despctate Ger?'"^S 4°übled n §ht ou the attackers,