HOLDING THE GATES
CALM AND COURAGEOUS ALLIED
DEFENCE.
(Received March 28, 8.45 a.m.)
Tv t- -* a ONDON, March 27. x-u a vmted Press correspondent says tne Anglo-French are viewing the commg events calmly and courageously. The British are holding the gates of Albert determinedly against the Hindenburg masses. Along Pozieres ridge, astride the bomme, ?t Warlencourt, Le Sars tflers, Longuevvil; Montauban, Mametz and Coureelette. the gunners to-day are strewing their corpses as they slowly press forward. The battle has undoubtedly reached A CRITICAL STAGE. Hindenburg is despe-ately trying to break through, now here a.n-1 n:;\v th^re, unmindful of ihe huge gaps torn in his massed ranks by the" JJritish guns. Simultaneously with the lunges in the direction of Albert, furious attacks *,re being flung south-west against the line Kosieres—-St. Gobain forest, curving outward towards ltoye and Noyon. Between the two last named places
ASSAULT FOLLOWS ASSAULT in rapid succession, the Anglo-French forcing the enemy to pay dearly for every inch of ground. Nesle was taken only after a most furious combat, the French resorting to bayonets, grenades and even pocket knives in body-to-body deathlocks.
Much the same scenes are being enacted by the British at Grevillers, Ligny-Thilloy, Montauban and elsewhere, our men withdrawing only when ordered, and sticking until the last man has been overcome by sheer numbers.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19180328.2.23.2.6
Bibliographic details
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 5
Word Count
218HOLDING THE GATES Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 5
Using This Item
See our copyright guide for information on how you may use this title.