POSITIONS CAPTURED ON WIDE FRONT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15194, 14 April 1917, Page 5

POSITIONS CAPTURED ON WIDE FRONT.

(High Commlßßloner's Cable.) Received April 14, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, April 13. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—We attacked during the night in the region between St. Quentin and Cambrai. After sharp fighting we captured the enemy's positions on a wide front from northwards of Hargicourt to Metz-en-Coutre. We now hold Sart Farm, Gouche Wood, and Gouzeaucourt village and wood. During the night we made a successful raid south-westwards of Loos. The enemy's dug-outs were bombed and considerable damage done to the defences. In the neighbourhood of Ploegstreet a hostile raiding party came under our machine-gun fire and failed to reach our trenches.