ALNWICK CASTLE TORPEDOED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16233, 31 March 1917, Page 9

ALNWICK CASTLE TORPEDOED.

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(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter.) Received 5.40 p.m., March 30th. LONDON, March 29. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—Wo captured the villages of Nouville and Bourjovai. Our raiding parties destroyed dugouts in the neighbourhood of Arras, Neuville St. Vaast, and Neuve Chapelle, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. THE GERMAN SIDE. i i Admiralty—Per Wireless Press, German official.—Our rearguards advanced north-east of Bapaume and' killed many of the enemy. English and French attacks , in Champagne failed, with sanguinary losses. j We frustrated attacks on a " wide front on the left bank of the Mouse. GERMAN RETIREMENT. EXTENDED TO BELGIUM. (Router's Telegrams.) PARIS, March 29. , The Germans are burning villages for miles behind their present lines, indi-l eating a renewal of the retreat. . According to Belgian sources the! Germans are destroying the country -in the vicinity of Zeebmggc, Bruges, and Ghent, implying-a retirement there also. THE EVACUATED TERRITORY. TEEMS WITH MARVELS. — — ' .(United Service.) Mr Beach Thomas, war correspondent, says that the'evacuated territory teems with marvels; —including numerous clockwork mines sot to blow up at different dates, colossal dugouts, concreted .forts, and underground towns and hamlets. Restoration work is pathetically clearing up the mystery of many missing Britishers. Former" residents are seeking for buried treasure near thoir vanished houses. One recovered 70,000 francs.