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WELLINGTON, March 26. The High Commissioner reports from (London, March 25tli, at 11.15 p.m.: French Official.—From the Somme to the Aisne we halve continued the offensive, and a bitter struggle has resulted from the dnergeitiic ddience by the enemy, hut our soldiers are so exasperated by the enemy’s ravages cvc.ywhere, that driving back the enemy has been done with serious losses to the latter.
On the Somme-Oisc front we threw back 'the enemy beyond an important position at Cassras and E'ssignv jo Grand, south of the Oise. We have penetrated several points at Coney Forest, reaching to tho outskirts of Folenbray. •North of Soissons our gains have boon
increased. Brutal GermansLONDON, March 25. Three hundred women, children and aged men died in consequence of hardships, brutality and starvation immediately preceding, and during, the German retreat. There were 150 vetims at Chauncy alone. The destruction of property in tlie large towns lasted for three weeks, and some Germans admitted that the worn sickened them, but they were carrying out General Hindenburg’s orders.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1917, Page 1
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