HAIG’S DESPATCHES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11633, 7 September 1918, Page 8

HAIG’S DESPATCHES.

ADVANCING AGAINST RESISTANCE MORE VILLAGES CAPTURED. Received September 7,2 p.m. London, September 6. Sir Douglas Haig 'reports: We forced the crossings of the Somme southward of Peronne in the face of vigorous resistance of rearguards on the eastern bank. We ((captured the villages of St. Christ, Erie, La Mesnil Bruntel, and took a number of prisoners. .We are now advancing astride the Amiens-St. Quentin road, and have reached A tines and Mons en Chaussee, and have captured Dcingt, eastward of Peronne, and made important on high ground between Peronne and Murlu. We bold Bnssu and are nearing xempleaux la Fosse, Nuriu and Equancourt, where there was sharp fighting during the night time. We gained ground westward of La Basse and beat off an attack against one of our new points. We are now estabished £iu portions of the old German front line eastward of Neuve Uhapelle. and hold the old British front line in the Faquuissart sec tor. The English have advanced their line northwestward of Armentieres. BRITAIN’S REPRISAL ON RUSSIA. LITVINOFF IMPRISONED. London, September 6. Litvinoff, representative of the Bolsheviks, who was previously confined to his own house, has now been taken to Brixton prison with his secretary and military adviser. The police'searcbed the so-called Embassy.-

|| TRADE UNION CONGRESS. SHELVES SEAMENS’ BOYCOTT OF HUNS. London, September 6. The Trade Union Congress shelved the'seamen’s boycott resolution by a majority of J:wo million on the card vote.