HEAVY FIGHTING RESULTLESS TO GERMANS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14574, 9 April 1918, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING RESULTLESS TO GERMANS.

PRODIGIOUS NUMBER OP TEUTpNS KTLLED SINCE FRIDAY. NEW ZEALANDERS TAKE HEAVY TOLL FRENCH REPULSE HEAVY ATTACK ON MEUSE. (Electric Telegraph Copyright—Per United Press Association.)

SHARP FIGHTING: ATTACKS AND COUNTER-ATTACKS. . j (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) LONDON, April 7 (10.25 p.m.) Sir Douglas Haig reports :— Our successful minor operations southward of thfi Sonnne this morning led to sharp lighting. The enemy strongly, counter-attacked, suffering heavily. • .:-..,' We repulsed .two, attacks on Buc'cruoy by artillery fire. '.■ ' _ ' ' On the remainder, of tile battlefront, the day passed more quietly. SPLENDID WORK OF AVIATORS. TRIBUTE TO) CANADIANS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) 1 LONDON. April 8.(12.60 a.m.) Sir Douglas Haig's aviation report says : — ' Our aeroplanes watching the enemy's 'movements, reported a, hostile concentration southward of th>s Somme, and a large formation immediately went out and dropped over 500 bombs and fired 50,C00 rounds' .at the; assembled infantry. | Wo brought down 15 onemy machines and drove down, 11 others, f&xteen of ours have not yofc been located, many of which were doubtless forced .to land be-; hind our lines owing to the; difficulty of finding the aerodromes m the heavy rain. The Canadian airmen have done very I valuable work m tins recent battle.

lieve the almost intolerable pressure of {he cramped front m the Ancre marshes, the Germans sought to throw us off the high ground above the western bank; also enlarging his bridgehead below the town. ! Since crossing the Ancre from his old Strongholds at Thiepval and Ovillers, the £nemy infantry has baen unable to climb but of the narrow valley. The Germans are closa held against the railway at Albert and Derrtatacourt. Another nut the Germans could not crack was Aveluy Wood. Here German machinei gun posts clung dizzily to the eastern fringe of trees at the water's edge, but we controlled the remainder on the mile-deep belt of timber screening the chalk hills. We could see the Germans assembling for battle, but our artillerymen throughout were all ready. AMERICA'S RESOLUTION. ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON. April 7. i ' The United Press correspondent' says i President Wilson's decision to hasten ! America's armed; -support to the Allied troops' has not come, an instant too !soon. It has now been proved beyond i doubt that 'Hind'enbnrg's orders are to force the' issue rapidly m order to end ; the war thi% year. Prisoners, with, sullen obstinacy, insist that the offensive! cannot stop tintil the war is won. j