HOW AMIENS WAS SAVED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14586, 23 April 1918, Page 6

HOW AMIENS WAS SAVED.

„ ■n>nn-rni^ FRENCH CORDON.BARS WAY. „„„ -i^T^™,*, m^ OUTNUMBERED TEN TO ONE, LONDON, April 7Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters wrote yesterday:— In the second battle, beginning on Thursday, we held the enemy, ana repulsed him in 1 most places with heavy losses, w^th troops which entered the battle on March 25. The closing days of March were among the most critical of the war. The Germans had been stopped oh the Oise,and SS?gs3l^ The troops were railed from a sector hundreds of^miles distant a^ fast as poswti3gV Vtfl^Vth -only a few «^ P»^ wftßl them the A'lff major was actually killed wMI gagin^ Qorman mounted men. The first rfinforcements arrived on March 25 but, the main body did not appear untU several days later* Meanwhile, the enemy was preparing a grand attack^ The most critical mo-, ment was on March p. Nine miles of Hne were screpned^qnly by cavalry patS^fKrh^^onlyiree French divisions. These, for four successive days, had meet the shock of 30 enemy divisions. It is a sober fact that during those B&«QSS3£ ml^? n wa l* x^ a nf *ha hattu rpw pf „* »^^:%. W™-^f J%gy aL h. d^^^'ia^a kap^y^t: » £?5£ S^l! "^fSStSHSSS^ «S iS^alSb 3BBS?^£ ™ y 'W c°'um"s °', ' "I y '. T l6 pS^^Hpt? SS. *& S ^tVl,^^^^^ '^ 7%&rsL «„„£„ i V. TAa rZL.^I 6OnS^ awards and the Branaenourgers. . The onslaught was repnlsl* with a Bnght losg of ground—little more than tl, 6 villages of MaUly-Raineval and Sau-