MENACE OF TEUTONS GONE FROM SOMME.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 8

MENACE OF TEUTONS GONE FROM SOMME.

-NOtMORE! GUN FIRE FROM TOP OF ; ijr MONT ST. QUENTIN. • A VISIT TO PERONNEI : ' . Alarch 19. Refusing to give battle, the Germans .yptdred still further over the open country east of Bapaume and British cavalry .patrols are m touch with theii* mounted rearguards on a line west of Cambrai and" St. Quentin. The exact location, is ya.gue,. as the movement continues, .aiid the British cavalry is m small units, moving cautiousfy ' among a large numher Of vburninsr villages, which are everyv^heire alight. Small parties of Oermans were encountered last night m the open, near Ytres and Bertinoourt. Some snipers m Bus opened fire upon a cavalry patrol arid were scattered by an aeroplane, "vyhidh swooped low, sweeping them ■with.' njachine gun bullets. ' South of the Somme, British cavalry j got m touch with German cavalry at Roiiy and with German cyclists at Potto. All bridges have been destroyed to' cover the German retreat, as ait Rouy and Breuil, and alll wejk have been filled with filth and rubbish, besides those more damrjably poisoned. '. MENACE HAS GONIH. It is the most extraord' : n , n*y expedience m life to follow up through this abandoned country from which thejGermaiis have fled, as I have found to*day m tr*ainping through the district of Bronne and v into that deserted and destroyed town. A few weeks ago I described the journey to the new lines we had taken over from the French south Of; the Stomane. Then it was under the full , blast of shell fire and not a day passed without .the Germans flinging" high explosives < into the ruined villag.es oif Hyencourt, Estress, Flaucourt and Biaches. From Mont St. Quentin, on ihe flank of Peronne, he liad observation of all the British ground, so that it* was horrible to see that hill staring down ,oh one, and 1 m daylight m the open country one moved always under tlie menace of death. To-day, that menace^ had gone, the evil spell had lifted, and we moved freely m sight _of Mont £t. Quentin unafraid and wdth a strange sense .of safety. The Germans had gone from there yesterday morning. At the same time they had crept away from the trenches at Biaches and across their