REPORT FROM THE FRENCH.
GREAT teHT FOB HANGARD
REMAINS IN ENEMY'S HANDS
fXurtralian and N.Z. Gable Association)
(Reuter's Telegram.)
LONDON, April 25. . A French communique issued at 4.25 this evening says : — The battle continued violently round the village of Hangard, against which the enemy concentrated »}} his strength. We gallantly resisted &m\ counterattacked several t'mes successfully. The village was lost and re-taken, but finally i*emained m the hands of the Germans at a cost of high losses. We hold the immediate outskirts of Hangard, from vrhich the enemy has been unable to dcIbouch, despite -repeated efforts. The artillery duel continues very violent on both batiks of the Avre end very active m the Woeyre m the region of Fliwy and Regnieville.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 3
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