FOCH'S ASSURANCES CONFIRMED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 5

FOCH'S ASSURANCES CONFIRMED.

ALLIES BRILLIANTLY HOLD f \r>: v ENEMY.; FRENCH COUNTER-ATTACK AND RECAPTURE GROUND. . .-.: (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received April 8, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 6. Renter's correspondent with the French army says :— The results of thevfivst. two days of the renewed battle have brilliantly" confirm-ed..-General,. Fpcli's assurances." The enemy has not only been held, but held by Jialf ..,,tpeir iiiim-ber of Anglo-French troops. , ... ",•' ,-.\ " Xy . -..,_.. The disproportion Qii. oV purely French basis . from Thennes to Gieyisnes is even greater. Fifteen. German divisions, seven \vere en tir^^y fresh,, attacked this- point,, and were checked by [a few Frencli qivisiQiis. v [.who,,, not -only held tliem, -but were' able to counterr attack and recapture, part _6f tfte ; ground carried -by the ; enemy on, Thnrsday, The enemy's objective y.~vas- again the Amiens railway .and town. The fifteen attacking, divisions included some oi the enemy's best troops. ; They repeatedly returned to the assault, far into the night.. . .■■:■.". The battle was . to-cjay on [the German side owing to the exhausted enemy troops, whereupon the French iSuccessfiUiy. coiinte"r-.a.ttacko,d at several, points, jiotably JVlailly, R^ineyal, andCantigny. .: „. ,-. .- /• [.— :-,yX Tlie frqnt line now crosses the Avre close to its .junction with the Luce 1 , thence running .west to Castel, hence between Morisel and Rpuvrel. Around Mailly and Raineval the gain of ground was. practically. ..all, inVthe, northern angle of the bulge. It htfs no importance for the issue of the battle.