FEROCIOUS FIGHTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1918, Page 4

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING.

GRAPHIC GLIMPSES OF THE EATTLE-FIELD, Times Service, Received March 2S, 7.30 p.m. Paris, March 27. Le Matin's special correspondent de« scribes the ferocity of the fighting. All day and night it goes on, with constantly louder cannonading, surpassing the most terrific experience of Verdun. The French troops advanced in perfect order towards the points whence the splendid British emerged under an avalanche of po.son gas. Thp banks of the Oise and the Somme are now one vast charnel-house, wherein the most famous divisions of the German army are m< Itin» away. He gives some glimpses of the battle-field. The picture shows that there passed out of the town! thousands of wounded looking as if they had. hud visions of hell. Horsemen are galloping up, abandoning their steeds- There is vthe loud staccato orders and the roar of artillery, and panllh<: transport cars, also the humming of clouds of protective aeroplanes above. Further hack t there are mournful groups of refugees moving for the second time during the 1 peasants djiviiifr their weary flocks and herds, women weeping, children pushing rieketty carta aud carrying their poor household cgects.