LINES STILL INTACT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 161, 27 March 1918, Page 7

LINES STILL INTACT

FEARFUL SLAUGHTER OF ENEMY WOPS GERMANS DRIVEN BACK OVER SOMME INSPIRING MESSAGE FROM MR. LLOYD GEORGE MEN AND GDI SENT TO REPLACE ' THE LOSSES To-days reports dealing with the tremendous conflict in Trance show that the Allies aro still slowly retiring on a considerable part of the battlefront, but yith lines intact and with artillery and ma-rine-guns takmg unprecedented toll of the advancing enemy masses. .. Bapaume has been taken by the Germans. It is euggested that the British may stand in positions immediately west of the town. South of Bapaume the enemy has penetrated the area fought over in the Battle of the Somme. He'claims Peronne. After incurring fearful ■ losses in orossing a section of the Somme south of that place he has been driven hack, to the east bank. Still further south, however, he . has reached Nesle, 17 miles south-west of St. Quentin. The French troops operating on the British right flank are now heavily engaged, and have reinforced a section of the British line. In conveying the thanks of the War Cabinet and the nation to the British troops, for their r.plendid resistance, to the German onslaught, Mr. Lloyd George ■ adds an assurance that ample reinforcements will be provided with all speed.