No Further Retirements.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 April 1918, Page 5

No Further Retirements.

MUST FIGHT TO THE LAST MAN! HAIG'S APPEAL. Received 11.55 a.m. LONDON, Aprti-12. Sir Douglas Haig has issued a statemetn to the troops that every position must be held to the last man. There must be no further retirements; with backs to the wall they must fight to the end, for the safely of ursn 1 *i*mes and- mankind's freedom depended on each one's conduct at this critical time. HINDENBURG WOUNDED. Received 11 a.m. LONDON, April 12. According to the "Daily Express's" Geneva correspondent, a telegram from £<trasburg states that Hindenburg is in hospital there with a slight wound, due to a bomb from an Allied aeroplane on the Western front. LONG RANGE GUN ACTIVE. Received 11 a.m. PARIS, April 12. ' The long range gun bombarded Paris yesterdaj', killing flur and wounding twenty-one. A shell fell on the children's hospital. THE FLANDERS BATTLE. ENEMY GAIN SOME GROUND. Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON, April 12. At 2.10 in the morning Sir D. Haig reports: Severe continuous fighting took place in the neighbourhood or Neuf Berquin. The enemy continuing his pressure, made progress at both localities and captured Merville. During the night he succeeded after heavy fighting in the neighbourhood of Ploegstreet in pushing us back to new positions in the neighbourhood of Neuve Eglise. The situation on the remainder of the northern front Is substantially unchanged.