FROM OTHER SOURCES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1918, Page 2

FROM OTHER SOURCES.

IN SOLE COMMAND. LONDON, April 15.

Reuter says the respective governments have given General Foch the widest powers. His actions will be unquestioned. Tims absolutely united An-glo-Franco-Americaii army is constituted.

OUR DEFENCE INCREASING. LONDON, April 15

Heuter’s correspondent at- the British Headquarters, reporting on the evening of ' the loth states that the enemy Ims not yet been brought to a standstill in the Flanders battle. Their reoccupation of Neuve Eglise, and their desperate struggle to advance towards Bailleux shows that the enemy is able and willing to continue to pay the appalling price in his attempts to crush the British Army; but on the contrary, every hour the strength of our defence is increasing. The enemy’s programme was to reach Kemmel on the tehth of April. Fie was only three miles from Hem mol Ridge, hut to-day lie is no nearer than on Friday. Since then reinforcements have boon thing across the Germans’ path. Interesting details of German losses are coming in. The Sixteenth .Division and the Seventeenth Reserve Division, on tin* 11 tli of April, got a terrible gruelling and were forced to retire upon the starting point. Prisoners numbering, fifty of the Second Reserve Infantry reluctantly tributed the magnificent- fighting of j the British machine-gunners, who on | tlie 23rd March reduced the prisoners’ I company lo half its strength.