HEAVY FIGHTING ON BRITISH LINE.
REPEATED ASSAULTS BEATEN OFF. BRITISH SLIGHTLY PRESSED BACK. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received April 6, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. Sir Douglas Haig reports :. There was heavy fighting this afternoon and late this evening between the Luce River and the Somme. The onemy employed strong forces and delivered repeated assaults. y y These were beaten off iwith loss to the enemy, but we } were slightly pressed back to the eastward of villers and Benethoteux, where ottf positions were maintained. Enemy artillery northward of the* Somme was in action during tho night in the neighborhood of Bucquoy. and in the Scarpe Valley. We engaged hostiie concentrations in the neighborhood ofi Albert.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 3
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