SEVERE FIGHTING AT NORTHERN END.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 5

SEVERE FIGHTING AT NORTHERN END.

BRITISH MAKE FURTHER GAINS. (High Commissioner's Cable.) Received April 11, 10.0 a.m. LONDON, April 10. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—During the night there was severe fighting at the northern end of Vimy Ridge, where the enemy retained a footing. He was finally ejected. An attempted counter-attack failed to materialise. The eastern slope of the ridge was cleared and enemy counter-attacks repulsed. We seized the village of Pampoux and the neighbouring defences north and sonth of the River Scarpe.