GERMANS BUTTING A AWAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14566, 30 March 1918, Page 6

GERMANS BUTTING A AWAY.

FOUR HEAVY ATTACKS REPULSED ENEMY DEAD LITTER THE <' GROUND. FRENCH DRrFEFcROWN PRINCE'S , HORDES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 30 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 29. The United Pres^ correspondent states that despite the sudden change of the weather — rain and a. gale are sweeping the battlefield — fighting 'is -uninterrupted. Tii© Germans '(with? oxlike persev- j ance ar© butting a wiy against the Brit- j isli lines. .They have . slightly pro- 1 gressed in the Arras region, occupying the front line trenches at.' Orange Hill, i also Neuville Vitassei I A cold stinging rain made night fighting difficult. The moon, which throughout the offensive has turned night into day, was obscured, rendering the night' darker and therefore producing, coin para- ' tlvely a lull in the Ancre valley ~and 1 astride th& Somme. / | Following on a hard day, though un- i der brilliant flares suspended from parachuteSj outposts and patrols dashed in constant manoeuvre for an advantageous ' get-away at dawn. j While Von Billow gained ground, in tho north, tho British held Von Hofac- ' ker to potty advances in the Albert . rogion. Four heavy attacks were repulsed northward of the Somme, tho enemy dend littering the ground. 1 The Germans south of the Somme, after repeated day-long assaults, bent the British line slightly backward to Hamel on tho Somme, Warfunv, Raban- j court, and Marcelone. | Below this the French brilliantly held the rqad. south, often driving the Crown Prince's horde^ at the bayonet point. — ;> — i . ' 1