WITH THE FRENCH

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13464, 19 April 1917, Page 5

WITH THE FRENCH

TWO VILLAGES CAPTURED. AFTER BRILLIANT ACTION. 14,000 PRISONERS SINCE TUESDAY (High Commissioner's Cable). LONDON, 3.00 p.m., Wednesday. Frolic h official report: From Soissons to Auberive westward a brilliant aetion lias resulted in the capture of Chavonne and Chivy villages. Northward all the ground has been carried as lar as the outskirts of Brave en Laonnnis, in the sector of Yille Anx Bois. Several fortified works have been captured, also a whole wood to the eastward. la the Champagne three enemy counter attacks in the region of .Mont Coniillet were stopped dead by our hie, with bloody losses to the enemy, the enemy withdrawing behind the position of his heavy and field artillery. Notwithstanding this we captured 12 cannon, including three heavy pieces, chiefly on the Champagne. The total unwounded prisoners captured since Tuesdav is over 14,000. CROWN PRINCE CORNERED. POSITION? CAPTURED DESPITE RESISTANCE. (United Service.) Received April 19, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, April 18. M. Marcel Hutin describes an episode in the French occupation of the southern slopes of Morvon Yillers. It was regarded as impregnable, but the Crown Prince was compelled to bring up 200,000 reserves, and then the second German position was carried in the face of the most desperate resistance. Time after time the enemy in his counterattacks was decimated.