MORE VILLAGES CLEARED.
. A SUCCESSFUL RAID. A. & N.Z. Cable Association and Reufer. Received March 21, 8.30 p.m. London, March 21. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: Despite less favorable weather, considerable progress has been made on the greater part of the front of our advance southward of Arras. A further fourteen villages were cleared of the enemy. We have now passed the general line Canizy-Kstreenelm-Nurlu-Velu-St. Lcger. We drove off a counterattack southward of Arras, and raided north-eastward of Neuviile St. Vaast, bringing back prisoners. Our aeroplanes bombed, with good results, an important ammunition depot.
FRENCH LL-3SES SMALL. HUNS CARRY OFF YOUNG WOMEN. Received March 21, 11 p.m. London, March 21. A French communique states: During several days' pursuit our losses on the whole front were insignificant. Everywhere we found evidence of systematic vandalism, mostly without military object. Aviators report that the historical ruins of the Castle Courcy were destroyed by an explosion. The Germans, in evacuating Noyon, forcibly carried olf fifty girls between the ages of 13 and 25."
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1917, Page 5
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