THE SPLENDID BRITISH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14574, 9 April 1918, Page 7

THE SPLENDID BRITISH.

HEROIC SELF-SACRIFICE, LOfNpON, March 26. Mr. JPirrie Itobinson, the Times correspondent at British Headquarters, says : —The , progress of the Germans . is nowhere comparable with expectations, ffiverywhene . they are /.faced with a line which bends, .sags, -and seems : to yield, but is always confronting .them. '■'.■•; The orderliness -and determination l of !the .British' is ;' most'impressive : "and <- eloquent of self-confidence. ' They, go up laughing and • jesting, and return weary, and. bedraggled,: but telling", with savage satisfaction terrible stories of German losses. ■ .'•.., • . : . Bearguard heroism, -multiplies 'beyond enumeration. Towards .Caubriorbs Wood and Vendrecourt Chateau ' and • infantry and . machine - gunners were . worn -oiit with killing. They say, that their 'arms and bodies ached. - They .>. inflicted : enormous losses. . . . '. ;-' The -fiercest fighting occurred' around Bapaume and Favi'euil, Fromicburt and Haplincourt South. Hei'o- tlio Germans crossed a tract of country evacuated » year ago, and arp now impinging on the ■old, Somme battle ; m the region: of Combles and Longu<>val, . :. About "Peronne and south of thaVtowii the enemy struggled fbr> 36 hours endeavoring to cross the • Somme and striko westward . Hitherto 10 enemy divisions have been, used 1 here. v : ;• : Successive waves. tried to force the Lahcashires out of the quarry of ■ Templeux lo Guerard. . The fight Taged all day long. The attabtei's wore slaughtered m heaps, and the quarries were held •until the eitemy penetrated to. the south by HavgicQurt, when the i. gallant Lancashiros were ordered to; rcjiye.