FURTHER PROGRESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16979, 16 April 1917, Page 5

FURTHER PROGRESS.

SPLENDID WORK BY AEROPLANES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. m . LONDON, April 15. (Recotved April 16, at 0.5 a.m.) Douglas Haig reports: "This mornJigJ captured Lievin, to the south-west o and adjoining Lens, taking considerable quantities ot war material. In the after noon, we seized Cite St. Piexre to tl e north-west of Lens. We pressed on our whole front on the Scarpe River to the couth of Loos, and reached points from two to three miles east of Vimy Ridge "Heavy fighting took place all day south of tho Scarpe. Everywhere we maintained the positions previously captured, and inflicted serious enemy losses. Wo progressed on a wide front north and routh of the Bapaume-Cambrai road from Boursies. Encounters resulting in our favour took placo south-east of Fayet and to within a few hundred yards of St. Quentin. "Wo carricd Grieourt village at the point of the bayonet. The enemv stubbornly resisted, and attempted a'hostile counter-attack, which was broken. " Our aeroplanes on Thursday and Friday dropped large quantities of oxplosives with good results on enemy stations and' ammunition depots and aerodromes. Wo successfully attacked enemy infantrv convoys with machine guns. ' Four German aeroplanes were brought down and six were driven down. Twelve of ours have not returnod."