GERMANS AND BELGIUM
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(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Router.) Received 6 p.m., April 2nd. \ LONDON, April 1. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We took prisoner in March 1239 Germans, making the total for January, February, and March 4600. MORE GROUND GAINED. We occupied this morning Savy, and this afternoon Savy Wood, a mile east* ward of the village. We also captured Vendelles, -Epehy> and Peiziere, and progressed north-east of Groiselles.
We raided northwards of Rocklin- ' court, north-east of Neuville St. Vaast, and south-west of Giverichy.
FRENCH PUSHING ON.
ENEMY DRIVEN BACK.
French communique.—lntermittent artillerying prevails between the Ailette and the Laon road. We captured several systems of trenches and strongpoints east of S[euville-sur-Margival, and the enemy was driven back to'tjne outskirts of Vauxillan and suffering heavily. Active mutual artillerying goed on wept of Maisons dg Champagne.
ARTILLERY WORK IN BELGIUM
Belgian communique.—There is continuous artillerying on the whole fronS, especially in the region of Dixmude.
NEARING ST. QUENTIN.-
ITS SPIRES IN VIEW.
(Australian and, N.Z. Cable Assn.) R*ceived v 9 p.m., April 2nd.
Mr Gibbs, war correspondent, writes: "The eriomy was badly caught at Savy. Six hundred Germans held the village. Our guns approached before they were expected. There was no regular bombut registration shots' inflicted heavy-casualties.
St Qusntin threatened by the British on the west and by the French on the south. From Savy the spires of St. Quentin Cathedral are visible. The town itself is hidden in a. hollow. Dirty work lias been done in spoiling the beauty of the mediaeval city. The Germans have already laid a portion of the city, in ruins. Houses, museums, and picture galleries have been looted. GERMANS' NEXT STAND Hitherto the fighting has "been on a small scale, but we are approaching the zone of the enemy's long range gun fire. GERMAN CRIMES. DENOUNCED. TO THE WORLD. 1 ', Received 0.35 a-m., April 3rd. PARIS, April 2. .'Nine Senators who had uwpected the liberaxed zone reported to the Senate. The latter passed a resolution denouncing the Germans' crimes to the civilised .world, holding rthe authors up to ' universal execration, jfnd solemnly pledging France that ' full reparation shall be exacted. ' \/ J ) \ ,_ " •, *A -SPECIMEN. - ; , -', ("The ; Times.") '' N ' " " '.LONDON. April 2./ t A -headquarters correspondent states i that at the yillage of Liacourtfosse an old*chateau was respected "ay the Allies' { ■ airmen' and artillery, because it bore huge'red crosses. An examination dis- , closes that it was surrounded' by dugout full of 'telephone and. telograph wires, and notice boards. '.The village | church had been devastated, .and sacred symbols and vestments befouled.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 7
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