SNOW AND RAINSTORMS.
INFANTRY EAGER TO 'ADVANCE
WONDERFUL S'KTLL OF BRITISH GUNNERS.
Auffrnlian-and N.Z Cable Association '(Received April 13, 11.80 -p:m.) LONDON, April 13. (Correspondents at British !Head--quarters state that snow and ■ramstorms continue. The wind' sometimes has a velocity of 60 miles an 'hour, but the infantry, eager and <eirfchusiastiie, are continuing, their •attacks. 'The artillery is Showing, -wonderful ikill. The new ronffjtfions of €eld warfare are very difterent ftwn shoati»g at fixed targets the rt\n%e 'Of which ds known. The momentary pause in the -ad- . vance 5s flue to the iact that the infantry 'have -rendicd the lmnbs tlie area of'devastation caused by ;the smaller pcs, anil &ir Douglas H«i.g must ha^i© 4to move up Ms artillery.
fc The enemy still hold the fortified f villages of Givenchy en Gohelle and I Petit Ivimy, which stop the progress i to Lens. • , • The Germans have prepared a second line running north and south of Qweant, supplementing the Hindenburg line.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 87, 14 April 1917, Page 5
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160SNOW AND RAINSTORMS. Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 87, 14 April 1917, Page 5
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