HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 3

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MESSAGES.

The High Commissioner cables : — t? v v LONDON/ M&vch 29, ZilO p.m. I . Sir Douglas Haig reports:-—Nortii-words of the- Sonime there "wire strong cn #S7 afc tacks yesterday afternoon and evening at several points, but our positions were maintained. We made succesj^ 4w^ i;\6Q^t?r^tackß.--.--ftris6nersV.a^d:/i!»ni^-chine guns being captured, andmflicieti ■ veyy heavy losses on the enemy. Southwards of the Somme we maintained 'our lino all the day long, withdrawing a little m face of a Superior eneniv. ' LONDON, March 28, 9.50 "p.m. : ; The War Office reports : At Arras at least seven divisions of the enemy are attacking, penetrating the forward "zone. On , our line passing through Arluec, Eampbux, Neuville Vitasse, md Boisleuc the frghting is severe and the enemy .losses heavy. Southward of Noyon the French, have driven back the enemy on a thi'ee kilometre line. The men' are still pressing onV •.;-'£■ . LONDON, March 28; 10^0 p>. Sir Douglas Haig reports : There was' ;heavy fighting to-day on 56, miles of the whole-British Ifne from sdiitKwards of the Somme to north-east of Arras. Our positions were .substantially maintained.