STATEMENT BY PRESS BUREAU.
lA«stralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegrnm.) LONDON, March 29. The Press Bureau this evening reports on the situation as follows : — We maintained all our positions northward of the Somme, where there were no serious attacks during the day. There was heavy fighting southward of the Somme, where we have been pressed back to lines westwards of Hamel-Marceleave and Demtnn. _ The French line southward of Demum runs through Mezieres, ta ■Neuville and GratibuS to just westward of Montdir 1 There has been further heavy fighting ■".to-day on this line. . The French counter-offensive between -Montdidier and Lassigny continues, and French troops are arriving. . The French line eastward of Lassigny js unchanged. " , A captured German order shows that
the objective of the divisions attacking on March 21 hear St. Queiitin was to cross the Somme near Hamel, a distance of eleven miles. The division actually penetrated under three miles.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 3
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