GERMAN REPORTS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1918, Page 3

GERMAN REPORTS

fjU'fiTRAMAN <fr N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION ' 1? & BETJTEB. ] a if LONDON, • April 18. ) A German wireless official message issiied early this morning states: ‘ ‘ln the capture of Armentieres the English garrison, comprising fifty officers and .‘IOOO men, laid down their arms aftea brave resistance. We also captured 45 guns and other booty. The total ■ prisoners taken in the battle in the Armentieres area is - now 20,000. These include an English General, y v Two hundred guns have been taken. 1

A FRENCH MISHAP. LONDON April 13.

A German official report states that a French assault westward of Moreuil. broke down, leaving 300 prisoners, who were subsequently killed hv the French artillery MORE SUCCESSES CLAIMED /’Received Yesterday at 11 10. p.m.) ’ ' t LONDON, April 14. j A wireless German official of the 14th, at- 1 a.m., says:-—On the battlefield at T,ys our attacks against English divisions progressed from the heights of Messines. We pushed forward across Steebaeh, and reached the eastern border of Wulverghem. We surrounded and captured Ploegsteert Wood and took the fortified height of Bossignol, between the railways leading from Armentieres to Bailleul and Merville. We carried the attack forward as far as the railway leading from Bailleul to Merrsissand as far as the eastern border of Nieppo Wood, southward of Merville, We captured Clarence river and took Locon by stopm and reached La Bassee Canal, north-westward of.Bethune.' Me prisonered four hundred on both, botn sides of the Luce hrook.