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THE WAR.
THE BATTLE OF ARRAS.
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ENEMY'S POSITIONS ON WIDE
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SEVERAL LINES OF TRENCHES CARRIED.
LONDON, April 18.)
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en,
German positions to the south ad
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We attacked "last" night between St. Quentin, and, despite St. Quentin and Cambrai. After enemy's desperate resistance, carried several lines of trenches between sho sharp fighting. we captured the
Sonin and then Fere-St. Quem- enemy's positions on a wide front tia road, bringing back prisoners NÉ frous the northward of Hargicourt to Metzencourtre. We now hold Sart Farma, Gaucho Wood, Gouzeaucourt south of the Oise, to the eastward of Coucy-la-Ville and captured pri- Soners and material. There is artillery struggle in the region of the Aisras and in the Champagne.
Two enemy coupe de main, in tàs
Village and Gouzeuncourt Wood.
We successfully raided, during the
the South-west of Loos.
might
Our machine-guns stopped a raid
Our advanced elements progressed,
in the neighbourhood of Plugstreet.region of Verdun, failed under our
OFFENSIVE PUSHING
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Losnos, April 13. Reuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters in France, telegraphing to-day, states:-
The offensive is pushing zelent. lessly and there has been most violett fighting to-day..
The advice, mentioned in the eurlier communiqué, covered a length of ine miles to an average depth of a mile. We also gained considerable advantage at Vimy Ridge.
A German oficial message, trans-
Our counter-thrusts balanced the atroniz British attacks
against
Givenchy and. Engohelle.
We twice. repuised attacks from the Arrus-Gavrelas road to th Scarpe."
We repulsed several attacks, including cavalry, to the south-easi' of Arrus.
French attacks to the south of Quentin Ailed.
THE RUSSIAN FRONT. GERMAN OFFENSIVE IMMINENT,
PETHOGRAD, April 12.
The correspondent demolishes the German claim that we have not broken their frout, by showing that we have fought our way down 3,000 A captured German army order. zards of the Hindenburg line and reculling all officers on leave, is bate penetrated beyond the old regarded as indicating that a German German" line to a depth of 8,000 offensive is imminent against the yards around "Arrus. A consider junction of the northern and western able number of German gun posi- | fronts. · tions are now practically isolated by our swarming artillery's concentric fire. A large addition to the guns already captured is expected..
THE BATTLE OF ARRAS.
FIRST PHASE SUMMED UP. ›
LONDON, April 13. With the necessity of bringing up heavy guns, which the shooking weather is delaying, there is a lull in. the Battlo of Arran
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Losos, April 13.
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mitted by wireless, states:
** In the region of Ozerki, the enemy attacked and occupied our positions. but a counter-attack drove them out.
In the region of Bogerodshany, following & gas attack without dam age the Austrians were bombarded. Disorder was noticed in the enemy The Timer correspondent sums up the
first line trenches. A part of the.. results of the first phase as the storming Austrians retired and the remainder of the Germans strongest positions on a front of twelve miles and the turning of
attempted to approuch with white
back.
RUSSIA.
the northern end of the Hindenburg age, but they were subjected to the Link The British hold 5,000 yards firo of their own artillery and fled of this line, besides piercing it st other points, at Ballecourts and EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY SNOW IN they are halfway towards the sap plementary line. It was the original German intention to retire to this line. Prisoners state that they expected
As a result of exceptionally heavy an attack on April 6, and when it did
now this winter the vers in South not come they postponed their retire-
ern Russia are exceptionall fooded ment to April 11, but the sudden and threatening towns and villages with
PETROGRAD, April 12,.
overwhelming British - onslaught on disaster, April 9, shattered thei; plans, Local fighting is now proceeding in the Monchy arts. The stiffest fight in the large operations which have already begun appears to be in the form of az attack against the old Germas front The Government beyond Givenchy, sorth of the point at which the Canadian attack left off.
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