STURDY DEFENCE AGAINST THE THRUST AT MESSINES
ATTEMPT TO JOIN FORCES WORKING FURTHER SOUTH Australian and N.Z. (Received 11.45 p.m.). LONDON, April 12.
Mr. Percival Phillips writes: Through holding Messines Ridge we have been able for a year past to hound the enemy's traffic off the roads by daylight as far as Menin. Two German divisions on Wednesday morning made a desperate thrust for the ridge. We held a line between Ploegsteert and Hollebeke with ample strength, including famous Scottish and English battalions. After a bombardment including many trench mortars, the attackers advanced along the flats towards Ploegsteert, the movement very gradually spreading northward, and the attack developing at Hollebeke and Gheluvelt in the afternoon. Small parties of machine-gunners crept south from Ploegsteert, entering Nieppe and, endeavouring to join the force which on Tuesday pushed southward round Armentieres. We cleared Nieppe without difficulty,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 7
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