WAR OFFICE REPORTS.
OUR POSITIONS MAINTAINED. ' ENEMY GAIN GROUND ON FRENCH FRONT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON, March 30. The War Office reports: — of the Somme the situation is unchanged. South of the Somme our positions were maintained. Heavy attacks on the French front enabled the Germans to "gain ground westward of the Avre and southward and westward of tile Montdidier. The enemy captured the villages of Aubvillers, Grivesnes, Cantizny, Mesnil St. Georges, Le Moncesel and Tyencourt. Heavy fighting is proceeding eastward of the latter place and the exact position is unknown. The weather has broken and heavy rain is falling. . •.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 3
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