AUSTRALIANS' DASHING ATTACK.
SAVES SITUATION ON ANCRE. GERMANS DRIVEN FIVE MILES. ftfnited Servloft.) (Rece.ived April 1, 9.50 a.m.) ■ : ■'■"■■■■)■'. ' Lp¥JDON, March 30. The intervention of certain Australian brigades oil the Aticrfl 6n Wednesday is recognised everywhere as one of the most brilliant achievements amid the mass of herpic efforts. , Th'e ! troops arrived oii Tuesday and immediately took up' their positions. Next day they delivered a dashing attidk from the , southern bank "of the fiver. * ' '■' ' 'I ' - v v ' "The Germans we're knocked back five miles' and' the villages of , MorLancotirt and Chipjlly captured. The ground betw.een the A, ncr e and the Somme was cleared, and the Australians held up the Germans' most direct attacks towards Amiens for two days, covering themselves with laurels.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 3
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122AUSTRALIANS' DASHING ATTACK. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 3
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