GERMAN REPORT OF FIGHTING.
(Australian and N.Z. Cabl* Association.!
(Renter's Telegram.)
(Received April 27, IL2O a.m.) LONDON, April 26.
A German official report states : A strontr French counter attack against the height at Vleugelhoek failed, with heavy loss. . We re : attacked the Anglo-French near and southward of ViJlers Bretonneux. o\u- infantry, supported by tanks, broke through the enemy machine gun nestsj; We captured Hangard. We advanced our lines on the heights northwestward of Castel; The enemy's reserves violently counter-attacked all day lons.- failing with .sanguinary losses. Bitter fighting lasted all night. We •I.ook prisoner two thousand and took four guns.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 3
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