ENEMY HOLDING NEW LINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1917, Page 5

ENEMY HOLDING NEW LINE.

-IT"* GERMANS TO WILLING TO MAKE A STAND. Received March 27. 1.15 a.m. London, March 20. The Morning Post's correspondent at the British headquarters telegraphed on Monday that enemy detachments wore holding a new outpost line in front of the St. Qiientin-Cambrai line, and that the. German light artillery were mildly shelling; a few mined villages which they thought were occupied by British cavalry. Our cavalry and 'cyclist patrols are constantly moving among the villages in (he St. (Jacnt'in region, raid occasionally inviting contact" with the Hermans, but never continuing an engagement. The British advance east and south, of Bapaume has not brought the troop, to the main German armies though everywhere they are within striking distance of a fairly stroii" outpost line. The Ccimans 'are still unwilling to make a determined stand if they are severely pressed. Tho weather is ideal for cavalry work, while the keen wind and bright sunshine uli'oi'd exceptional facilities for air observation.

REPORT OF SET BATTLE DENIED. • APPRECIABLE FRENCH ADVANCE. ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. Received March 26, 10.45 p.m. London, March 2G. The latest messages from the British and French fronts show there, is not the least justification for tho sensational messages published to-day that a set battle has commenced, and that the heaviest lighting is in progress. The French have advanced appreciably in twenty-four hoiirs, and have now driven the Germans back-on a line three miles south-west of St. Quentin, where, it is expected, they will try toxoid the line Grunies-Urvillers-Ceritzy-Moy,

GERMANS UNDERFED. •CONCLUSIVE PROOF. ENEMY FORCED TO RETREAT. Times Service. Received Mare- 26, 10 p.m. London, March 26. The headquarters correspondent says there is evidence that the retreating Hermans are underfed, eating cats and making sausages of dogs. They are extremely short of medical -and surgical necessities, there being numerous deaths from poisoned wounds. Additional proof that the Germans were forced .to retreat is supplied by the fact that the British are now passin" well-built dugouts, trenches, and gunpife and mt quantities of valuable material macs behind the surrendered line. A GERMAN ADMISSION.. London, March 25. A wiroiesi German official message i says:-South-east of Yprcs wo advanced and found the trenches destroyed and evacuated. Our protecting troops gave »<v>, m accordance with instructions, at Jfcaumete, Roisel, and eastward of the Crozat Canal. We repulsed the French at Vregny and pierced the French lines at Soupir and Cerny. 'Our aeroplanes destroyed 17 Anglo-French machines. RECAPTUREDTERIUTORY VISITED. 'Paris, March 25. M. Poineare, accompanied bv the Ministers of War, Interior and Labor, with senators and deputies, visited Noyon. Guiscard, Ham, Nesle, and Roye. M. Rjhot, the Premier, announced that the (jovernment was collecting evidenc in order to protest to neutrals against Germany's barbarous acts in evacuated territory.