MR P. ROBINSON'S ACCOUNT.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1918, Page 3

MR P. ROBINSON'S ACCOUNT.

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' f Received This Dnv at P. 15 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. .Mr. Perry Robinson describes the advance of the Germans on all parts of the battlefield as telling the same story of wave, lifter wave against small British forces. Great numbers 'succeeded in getting through somewhere, and flowed round like the tide, encircl- ' ing a sand castle on the -seashore.

! ItfORE FAVOURABLE REPORT. | (Received This Day at 9.50..; a.m.) LONDON, April 14. ' An official reports says the news is ! regarded as reassuring. The British ! ar e holding brilliantly against the coni centrated- weight and fury of the on- ; slaught. The position north.westward l of Armentieres is still criticnl, out timely reinforcements are hourly .strengtening the lines. Our tenacious stand at Neuve Englise, and the bea - ing off of repeated attacks towards

' Hailleul, and other directions, are im- : Dortant factors in the situations, j German shells set fire to many j lionaes in Bailleul and a strong rcozo fans the flames. . ... t I Saturday’s battle again illustrates .the extreme celerity with which su<•eessive masses of German troops a c thrown forward. We hold the ampintheatre of high ground from Wytsr'hacte to Mont Kemmel and Aeme Ifelise; also tlic hills Fletre and Berthe behind > Unillieul. The enemy >s still confined almost exclusively to the loul.viiig country.

BATTLE CONTINUES VIOLENTLY : (Received This Day at 1” J PARIS April 14. ! An evening semi-official reporf says I the battle in Flanders continues violent- : ly, but to-day shows a very definite slowiiicr down of enemy’s advance whie’. : henceforth it should be possible to hold back as the Allied- reinforcements are ready to he brought up and put m the battle lino. The German advance southward of Metherem out flanks Bailleul which however the Allies still hold. The Germans continue their attack oil -l.c whole French front, with a'view to Keeping our reserves from the principal battle area, but therein they have failed, for French troops occupying thseetions concerned are sufficient to repel all the-enemy efforts./ Ihe great mass of our reserves is intact, and at the disposal of the General Command. i

CANDID GERMANS

''Received This Dnv nt 12.25 o.rn.) LONDON April 14.

The “Morning Post’s” Zurich correspondent says the newspapers reader ..re regaled with every scrap ol in formation suggesting that the English people are losing heart. The German - consider the military position now strong enough to justify' a candid disclosure of their aim, to occupy tb 1 place which they expected the .British Empire will he compelled to vacate.

LOUD FRENCH'S MESSAGE. iU*. e.vell I Ills l)a v al U.IO. a.m.) LONDON: April 11. Lord Fietu-h telegraphed to Haig:-

‘-In heart and thought Tam with y-u iind my old comrades in this time . ,f trial, with confidence that the lustre and ilium illation of the glorious army in every phase of the campaign will continue to shine as brightly as ever.”

PCT ON RESERVF PARIS April 14. >A Ministerial decree places general Sarrail on the second reserve. MARCEL HUT IN’S VIEWS. PARIS April 11. s Marcel. Hut in says the British efforts in Flanders are making themselves, more il'ielt. TTio bitter fighting of our tenacious Allies rendering nugatory the enemjj's attempts to break through between Ramiebrouek and Ypres. British are successfully disputing the ground until the arrival 1 of French rccertain that the road to Dunkirk and Calais is blocked to the enemy.