IMPORTANCE OF PERONNE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11619, 10 July 1916, Page 5

IMPORTANCE OF PERONNE.

THE KEY TO THE POSITION. | CAPTURE MAY MEAN DEFEAT. | London, Military authorities believe that the German line will he broken if the French seize Perouue, behind which the Germans are not prepared. Feronne, however, is heavily fortified and also defended by a wide, canalised river and a lakey marsh half a mile wide. THE CAPTURED RECAPTURED. FRENCH GETTING BACK THEIR GUNS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assoclaj tion.) . Received July 10, !).BO a.m. Paris, July 0. " Tbefguns captured in the battle of the Somme include Russian caution taken by the enemy on. tiie eastern front in 1915;aud French guns from Maubenge.