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NO CONTACT WITH MAIN ARMIES.

BRITISH MOVING CAUTIOUSLY. ADVANCE OF OVER 20 MILES. INCIDENTS OF THE ADVANCE. Received March 24, 12.50 a.m. London, March 23. The Morning Post's headquarters correspondent states: Open warfare cavalry skirmishes and occasional encounters with German cyclist patrols are still features of the British advance. The German rearguard resistance is curiously irregular, varying from the stubborn opposition of entrenched infantry east of Bi.pa.ime to mere glimpses of isolated detachments moving in the trees and villages west of St. Quentin. Although we are driving in the rearguards we have not yet obtained contact with the main armies. German guards of machine-gunners still hold the Beugnytres position, astride Cambrai road, but this consists of isolated eni trenchments.

As the enemy screen continues southward it swings more eastward. The angle is daily more pronounced, becoming thinner and more flexible, and inviting increased cavalry pressure,

Nowhere is the British advance more cautious than east of the Somrne, where, however, it has reached Savy, close to St. Quentin, representing an advance of twenty miles. After long confinement in the trenches the temptation to rush pell-mell in the fields and hard roads is almost irresistible. The men want at least to get within hearing distance of the guns, but it has mostly been a steady movement.

A large portion of the advance falls on cavalry patrols and cyclist scoots, who are far ahead scouring the woodland and gullies. The infantry and guns go forward steadily on the mended roads.

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Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1917, Page 5

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NO CONTACT WITH MAIN ARMIES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1917, Page 5

NO CONTACT WITH MAIN ARMIES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1917, Page 5

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