GERMAN VERSION OF FIGHTING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 7

GERMAN VERSION OF FIGHTING.

<Australian and New Zealand Cable Association and P.euter.) Received April 11, 2.50 p.m. LONDON, April 10. A wireless German official message states: The battle of Arras continues. The British, after several days' artillery activity, attacked on Monday, following a violent increase in their fire, on a 20-kilomet.res' front, and as the result of hard fighting penetrated our positions on the roads from Arras, but failed to break through. Two of our divisions suffered considerably through stubbornly resisting the superior enemy forces. We penetrated beyond the third British line south-eastward of iTpres. A French attack at Laffaux failed,