GERMAN DIVISIONS SWEPT BACK FROM WYTSCHAETE.
MAGNIFICENT FIGHT AT GIVENCHY SAVES LINE. TimMl (Received 1,30 a.m.) LONDON, Agril 12. Mr. H. Perry Robinson, continuing his description of the fighting on the northern sector, writes: The enemy was swept back from Wytschncte, the highest parts of tho ridge, and the western portion of Ploegsteert Wood in the morning. We firmly held the lino east of Wytschacte, and the backbone of tho ridgo. The enemy used 12 divisions to attack tho Portuguese centre. The magnificent fight of the Fifty-fifth Division at Givonchy saved a rather serious disaster. The Germans attacked tho fifty-fifth in repeated masses. Our rifles and machine-guns did dreadful execution. As the Portuguese ' retreated, the Germans sought to fling great numbers into tho breach, but tho cyclists battalion and other troops gallantly stommed tho ruoh against tremendous odds until the line was reformed behind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 8
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