WESTERN THEATRE
PBENCH BEPOBT. ENEMY DETACHMENTS CAUGHT. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn & Reuter) LONDON, March 8. Received March 8, 11.55 p.m. French communique: On the Verdun front our batteries caught enemy detachments on the northern outskirts of Malancourt Wood. German organisations at Kparges Wood were effectively bombarded. There have been lively artillery actions at Maisons de Champagne.
BBITISH PBOHT UNCHANGED. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn & Reuter) LONDON, March 8. Received March 8, 8.20 p.m. Sir D. Haig reports : The situation is unchanged. We silenced the batteries shelling Ypres, and bombarded enemy trenches westward of Mesines. THE BBITISH LINE? LONDON, March 8. Received March 8, 8;20 p.m.
Estimates of the British line on the West front vary owing to it not being publicly known how far it extends beyond Koye. A French writer declares that the total length is over 150 miles*
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Southland Times, Issue 17969, 9 March 1917, Page 5
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