WESTERN CAMPAIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16229, 27 March 1917, Page 8

WESTERN CAMPAIGN

FRENCH PRO GUESS CONTINUED. (Austialian and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter.) . _ x . LONDON, March 25. A I'reach communique states:—We progressed again north of Grand Seraucourt and St. Quentin. We advanced appreciably north of Chatmy and oil the east 'oank of the Ailette. We consolidated positions there .aria in the region north of Soissons. \ We seized portions of trenches east nf Ma-inconrt Wood and west of the Meuse. Yesterday's prisoners.. belonged to fleven different regiments. ' There is great mutual activity and Penal bombing., < The Germans bombed Dunkirk aid Calais but only did small damage. GERMAN PJiYPORT. Admiralty—Per Wireless Press. A German official' messatre states: — Kontf'-onsi of Ypr&s we advanced and found the trenches destroyed and evacuated.' Our protecting troops gave wa.v in. Accordance with' instructions at Beaumont r.nd ' Boise"!, eastward of the Crozat Canal. We _ lxpuised the French at Vrigny and pierced the French lines at Sonpercorney. Onr aeroplanes destroyed seventeen A nglo-FrtDch machines. ' i ROYAL AIRMAN HURT. 1 PARIS. March 25. King Alfonso telegraphed to Prince Leopold of Prussia that Prince Friedrich Carl received a serious bullet wound in the stomach during his recent aerial fight. INVADERS' ATROCITIES. FRENCH COLLECTING EVIDENCE. M. Poincare, accompanied by the Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Labour, and several Senators-and Deputies, visited Noyon, Guiscard, Ham, Nesle and Roy©. M. liibofc, tho * Vernier, announcer] that the Governntent was collecting evidence in order io protest to neutrals against Germany's barbarous acts in. evacuated territory.