IN FRANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1917, Page 5

IN FRANCE

'ALLIES' ATTACKS.

KKPULSED BY GERMANS. LONDOX, Match 11. A Berlin communique states 1 : In lie; Aiieic region the English attacked without artillery preparation between Archiet Petit and Crevillers; also at night time, after heavy fire, on 1 oth sides of Bucquoy- '.l hey were heavily repulsed. In the Champagne, battles continue south of Ripont with, varying success. French thrusts "ear St. Millie] failed. THE BRITISH WAR MACHINE.

NOW ON THE MOVJ

LONDON, March 11Mr. Beach Thomas states that the British military machine in France. numbering' L\0(H),0()() men. is now palpably i.a motion'; The Oerman new retirement was forced by the terrific 'British gunfire pulverising the defences at Bapaume Ridge. We captured Lnvrpoi'i Wo (1 and two miles ef trenches,, at each end. controlling the ::-ui rounding slope:,. All the, eorre."pondcuts agree that importiint Britnh inovemenfs are pendingMr. d'hilip Oibbs forecast;; that coming events ar: likely to severely damage the enemy, even if he escapes

PUSHING ON,

BRITISH LINE ADVANCING

[AUSTRALIAN aSD N.Z. CaBLE ASSOCIATION.]

Iteceived tin's dav at 12.50 a.m LONDOX, March io-

Sir'Douglas Haig reports: Our line advanced on a one and a-half miles frontage soufh-wesi of Bapaume- We progressed on a two thousand yards' frontage south of Aehiet le Petit and occupied a thousand yards of trenches southwest of Essarts, which is northeast of Gommecouit- We raided trenches eastward of Armcntieres ami effectively bombarded positions north of the Somme and east of Arras-

FRENCH OOUP OE &IAIN.

GERMAN ATTACKS RF-

ITLSKD

[ArSI'RAUAN anO S.Z. CAHLK ASSOCIATION-]

Received this dav at 12--K) a-m. LONDON. March 15A French communique states: \Ve carried out a coup de main in tic region of Moulin sous touvei, i-asf of the Oise, and look pt'is-

nners. Several Uernmn attempts on our small posts in the neighbourhood of Vingre. west of bavarian and Argonne. failed- There was fairly active artilleryiiig in the region of Maisons de Champagne, but ho infantry work-

GEHf^AHS 5 GREAT LOSSES.

BATTLLIILLD A SliAMiU.tlS

[AUBTKALUN iSI) H.l. CAHLP. ASSOCIATION-!

Received this day at 12-4:0 p.m IiOA !)0..\, March io-

Mr Philip dibus stales: On Wednesday evening the enemy was still imlding out at Acluet le , ~,,,1 Hiu-miov. tllOUU'll tIjP.V

were, forced to leave in a hurry. .\ v ,sit to tin 1 battlefields shows the devilish torments the enemy suffered. The ground whs a f.-liuos mid so turned up by shell-tire that ono'ri gorge rises at such obscene mangling of Mother Earth with bodies half-buried by high plosivesThe ravine beyond Mivaumont is a .shambles. The German troops there had machine-gun emplacements and deep dugouts under ,-over of banks of earth, but our jjuns found them out ami the enure garrison was killed. _ [ counted the dead hereabouts, an d out of Hot) bodies iOU were Germans. Our gunfire loaves nothing » liv,> iiml inakrs rubblsh heaps of the machine-gun casements, and breaks hunureds of viiies into matchwood. it discloses the secret of the German retreat to save themselves from another such .shambles- They are falling back to new lines.