GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1918, Page 2

GENERAL HAIG’S REPORTS.

HEAVY ATTACKS, LONDON, April 15. Sir Douglas Haig reports that fighting occurred this afternoon in the neighbourhood of Bailleul and * AYuiverglien and is being continued. Hostile artillery is active between Givenchy and Robeck.

Our artillery' effectively engaged bodies of infantry at La Basse© and along the Estaires road.

A HOT ATTACK

(Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, April 16.

A 4.50 p.m. message says BajllouJ was attacked from the south and eastward. The battle was of the hottest, in pitch black darkness. The British lines are intact, being merely bent back. 'LOSS OF BAILLEUL. OTHER heavy fighting . (■Received This Da.v at 9.50 a.in.* LONDON, April 03. General Haig reports that the eneiny, last evening, launched a very heavy attack, preceded by an intense bonibai'din'.eut,. between Btailleul and Neuve Eglise. Three picked German divisions, not previously engaged in the battle, delivered the assault, and after a fierce, bitter struggle, carried the high ground south-eastward and eastward of Bailleul, knowil as Mont Dellille and the Revelsberm. We have fallen back to new northward of Bailleul and Wulverghem. Bailleul fell into the enemy’s hands. A fresh German attack was developing this morning in the neighbourhood of Wytseliaete.

We repulsed an attack, under cove; of heavy artillery and trench mortar fire, south-westward of Vieux Berquin, and took prisoners.

A successful minor enterprise was carried out south-eastward of Robccq.

BAILLEUL CAPTURED. Received, this dav at 8 45 a.m. LONDON, April 16. The Germans have captured Bailleul