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FIGHTING INTENSIFYING.. Wo entirely maintained the posi tions which we captured yesterday.

HINDENBURG'S DEFENSIYB LINE-

REACHED.

PARIS, March 26. ▲ semi-official message reports that the Allies have apparently reached the so-called Hindesberg defensive line of which St Quentin is believed to be the

contre, with Cambrai on tas north and Laon on the south as support points,

We continued to advance south of the Oise.

Despite the state of the ground and bad weather, wo pushed our patrols beyond Felombray to ther south of Labussce in the lorest at Coucy.

Our batteries blow up an enemy"

munition depot to the east of Goda

The Allies are again confronted with Farm To the north of Rheims, ve trenches and the fighting is intensifying enemy aeroplanes wer

brought

but the more vigorous German resistance down. has not checked the dash of the assailants,

A French air squadron dropped a who are inflamed by the spectacle of ton of bombs on "factories no Thion wanton devastation of the Germans,ville and Briey Basin, and also on whose whole line had to fall back under the railway stations at Conflans and our pressure, losing heavily,

Montmedy.

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S LATEST REPORT.

The French are now closs to St. Quentin and have cut the St. Quentin- Chauney road and bave maintained and even extended their gains to the north of Soissons on the Loan or Vregaya plateau, despite two'powerful counter attacke. The numerous German effec-reports :—-..

LONDON, March 26,

Field Marshal Sir Dougins Haig

tives now engaged prove the extent of We captured Lagnicourt to the

the effort the enemy is making to arrest the advance.

THE ANGLO-FRENCH ADVANCE.

northward of the Bapaume Cambrat road, and took thirty prisoners. Wa drave off determined counterattacks for the east and northeast and our artillery dispersed a third attack.

Wa repulsed a bombing attack to the THE" WEEK-END' DEVELOPMENTS. north of Beaqmetz :).

LONDON, March 26. The principal week-end develoomenta on the west "have been on the French front. The British advance has slowed down

Our machine guns scattered parties, approaching in the neighbourhood of Fauquiasart and Ypres,

There was much air fighting. Two German machines were brought down

the country they have to cross, and three were driven down damaged. between Arras and Perouna has been Seven of ours are missing.

smashed by the terrific bombardments

GERMAN REPORT,

of the past eight months. Nevertheless they are already" astride the famous Hindenburg, line between Cambai and tod, by wireless, reports: St. Quentin as a result of the capture of Raisel and Vermand: The French are able to advance more rapidly as the

A German official message, transmit.

| bombardments farther south have boen.

lessa severo.

44

The enemy lost eleven aeroplanes on Sunday. Their operations on the

We attacked a French force which had advanced across the Somme and the Crozat cans, inflicting heary losses. There was a fierce fight, and we captured 100 prisoners.

We repulsed three attacks to the east

of Olette.

Hand-to-hand ighting resulted in a

Oise and on the western ponder of check of the French advance to the

the great wooded St. Gobain plateau, or th of the Aista.

near Laon, is most promising. This | An air squadron on Saturday night is a natural stronghold, fifteen miles attacked Dunkirk

square, rising to 700ft, above the several fires.

There

BRITAIN'S. MILITARY

EFFORT.

| Oise on the west of the plain. Lon is on the north. It was here that Joffre intended to stand in 1915, but lack of punitions forced him to fall, back on Soissons, repeating the

LONDON, March 26, experience of Napoleon in 1814.

The immense military effort in Since then this wasps nest, as Britain is strikingly illustrated by a French writer describes the forest the army appropriation account for has been a classic theme of the 1016 showing that the total net military schools.

expenditure for the army was

TANK " BY A STRAITS CHINESE

The French are now threatening to £48,182,548. This amount includess tum Hindenburg's line as a result pay £98,157,150 supplies and cloth- of their successes at La Fere, where ing $212,050,815, quartering, trans- the line is already partially broken port and remounts £96,378,107 of They have further captured import which sen transport of troops cost ant positions south of St. Quentin, £30,687,382 £5,570,320 was cre inflicting heavy losses, au, the Ger- dited to the Indian Government for mans for the first time since the ordinary EXPROSER and Indian beginning of the retreat If a fur expeditionary forces. ther French blow carries them across the wide marshy valley of the GIFT OF Oisthe whole Laon salient may detento go, especially as e Franch are

LONDON, March 28: simultaneously and vigorously" nt.

The Army Council has gratefully tacking the plateau frontally from accepted a gilt of £6,000 from Mr. Soissons and gaining ground despite Buo Ng Beng, a member of the obstinate opposition at Yregny und Federal Council of the Mary States,

for the purchase of a ““Tank.””

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Meanwhile it is noteworthy that German telegrams, from Petrograd emphasise the shortening of the German front in the west is part of the plan to overthrow Bussi...

LATEST REPORT "FROM THE FRENCH FRONT

LONDON, Murth 28.

14 REGIMENTS OF NATIONAL GUARD CILLED UP.

ALMARWAHinseroy, March 25.

-Fourteen sæguments of the National Guard of sumour States cal up to protect industi

disorders in the

A French coramuniqué reports Our fire stopped, and our counter- attacios répuised, sovemi, free eneing hostil attacks during the night on the Eesigny Benny front, which)-18

between the Somme and the Olge for inore Serious los was infi

enemy

from