DISJOINTED REPORTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 7

DISJOINTED REPORTS.

.SOME FURTHER1 RETIREMENTS ££_ MENTIONED.

j'ALSO TEMPORARY CHECKS TO J ' ■■' " HUNS.

(Received March 28 12 noon). ; LONDON, March 27. The Germans claim that the British have retired on both sides of the Somme, and that the French have retired slightly west of Roye. A renewal of the German -attacks north of Albert, is exoetced at any moment. ••.•■•■"■■;

•North of the Somme the Germans have been checked for the time being on the bank of the Somme. French reserves are arriving. > The British counter-altacked arid dirove the Germans across the Ancre, and the British recaptured Proyart,