HAIG'S THIRD THRUST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 3

HAIG'S THIRD THRUST.

OPENS SPLENDIDLY

TRIBUTES TO THE BRITISH,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. l LONDON, April 30. Correspondents at the front state that Sir Douglas Haig's third thrust opened splendidly/ compelling Hindenburg to' further deplete his famous strategic reserve, which he is recklessly using as the only alternative to retreat to the still unfinished. Drocourt-Queant line. The weather is fine and the fighting, which is fierce north-eastward of Gavi«elle, is yielding important successes. The Huns ai'e continuously unavailingly counter-attacking- with 'appalling losses. There are many French tributes to Sir Douglas Haig's masterly method of minutely collating all the possible «U« ments of success before ]auu<lhiu£ a well-defined and strictly linvlU-d oftVi,i sivo on a chosen ' front. i Other French correspondents dw<>lf on the signal evictenoes of British determination and valor in every cornier of the battlefield*;