A GERMAN CLAIM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11501, 2 April 1918, Page 5

A GERMAN CLAIM.

70,000 PRISONERS TAKEN, A wireless German official mes- , sage states: There wore local engagements on both sides of the Scarpe. We broke into the foremost English positions and tool: prisoner several thousand. The English continued, near and north wards of Albert, their fruitless and costly counter- A! a civ. We again attacked between tiie Somme cud the Ancro mm! drove out the enemy Irani old positions and out o: brave] v uctemied villages in a westerly end north-westerly direction vu Wsrousce, Abacourt and Flossier. The French repeatedly ami violently attacked oar new front between Montdi-lier and Noyon. Our booty since the beginning of the battle is 70,000 prisoners and 1100 guns, of widen von Under took prisoner -10.000 mid 000 guns. Increased artillery fighting has continued in Lorraine. We cleared Avette. We drove out the Anglo-''reach from parts of their foremost positions between tiie Somme and Avra. We captured Beaucourt and Mcsieres. • The French attacks against Montdidior failed.