INDICATIONS OF GERMAN RETREAT
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS DAILY. WHAT THE BRITISH HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 21, 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, May 20. A Paris paper reports that the Germans are hastily digging switch trenches in Artois and Champagne, wjjich arc indications of a retreat. For the last three weeks fires and explosions have been of daily occurrence; moreover, the enemy is emptying their parks on the Hindenburg line, which have been hollowed out or burst in for over 15 kilometres north-west of Queant to Meuville and Sitassi. The British in a month have taken lines occupying the enemy over a year to. construct.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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