UNITED PRESS REPORT.
GALLANT BRITISH GUNNERS.
fAUSTRALIAN A 5.7.. CAM.E ASSOCIATION’! <fc REUTER, j
-v LONDON, April 12. The United Press. correspondent, at 10.30 'p.m. states that the German pressure was ceaseless to-day from La Basse to Hollebeke. The ten divisions with which the thrust began are now doubled 1 , and about threefiftfis of the enemy forces on the west front have been engaged in the offensive since March 21st, leaving between seventy and eighty divisions holding the other sectors, only sixty of which consists of good fighting 1 men. The British are hourly performing prodigies of valor, firing rifles until they are too hot to hold, while artillery men are. stripped to the waist-and blazing at point blank targets. '
AMERICANS ATTACKED. NEW YORK, April 12.
The United Press Paris eorrespSnSent reported that, the Germans have attacked the Americans north-west of Toul. The heaviest artillery and infantry fighting is now in progress there.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1918, Page 2
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