VON HUTIER’S POSITION

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11615, 14 August 1918, Page 5

VON HUTIER’S POSITION

GOOD ROYE UNDER FIRE. London, August 12. You Hutier’s army, with its left resting on the Thiescourt Massif, and the Oise at Noyon, is sufficiently well;placed for theklefensive, except for the threat of a further advance of the British at the Amieus-Roye road. The Allies at Andechy are only four miles away. Roye is already under fire from the Alli e Q gnns. The enemy position on part of the line is anything solid. BRITISH ON THE ROY'S ROAD. ADANOING THE LINE. London, Angus 12. £ Sir Dougals Haig reports; There was successful fighting in the neighbourhood’jf the Roye road, eastward of Fouquescourt aud on the south bank of the Somme. We [advanced our line in each of these localities taking a hundred prisoners. We captured southward of the Somme, after sharp fighting, in which the enemy lost heavily in prisoners aud killed. Fighting continues. AUSTRIAN DIVISION APPEARS MORE FOR SHOW T HAN WORK. Times. London, Aug. 13. An Austrian divisiomhas been discovered on the West Front, but thus far it has not been engaged, the object of its presence probably being to demonstrate the solidity of the Austro-German alliance, and to improve the morale of the troops.