A PAUSE IN THE ADVANCE.
HAIG MOVING UP HIS ARTILLERY
TROOPS EAGER AMD ENTHUSIASTIC
Received prii i 3, 11.50 p.m. of London, April 13. The correspondent with the British headquarters states that snow and rainstorms continue. The wind sometimes blows, at 00 miles an hour, but the infantry are eager and enthusiastic over continuing the attacks.
The artillery are showing wonderful skill. The new conditions of field warfare are very different from shooting at fixed targets, where the range is accurttcly known.
The- momentary pause in the advance i» due to the fact that the infantry have reached the limits of the area of denotation caused by the "smaller guns. Sir Douglas Haig must have time to move up his artillery.
The enemy still holds the fortified villages of Givenohy-en-Gohelle and PWitVimy, (which stops progress lipon Lens. The Germans have prepared a second line running north and soutfc of Queant, supplementing the Hindenburg line.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1917, Page 5
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154A PAUSE IN THE ADVANCE. Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1917, Page 5
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