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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
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BRITISH OFF REPORTS.
MINOR ATTACKS,
Lospos, April 29.
10. p.. "Field-Marshal "Sir Douglas Haig reportat
wards for the Coast with his weghiz
Reuters Correspondent says Whether the eneing attempts to garry the strongly defended hills by a frontal attack or aduce them by a. converging movement, he will find the operation very costly. There is abuzdance of evidence that a very
A hostile attack is developing this hard struggle is in prospect in this afternoon in the neighbourhood of afea. The Germans are bringing up L'Oere. Offerwise, there "sm only new Divisions, while enormous gun local engagements.
power has been accumulated on bell Our patrols captured prisoners in sides. The shelling of roads the neighbourhood of Villers Breton and hills in the rear is
neux.
towns
and Ypres is drenched with gua-
The enemy heavily bombarded our shells. positions in the pres sector,
Writers in the London papers dia
We made only two flights rester-cuse regretfully the possibility of the dar owing to the fog. We brought abandonment of Ipres which was for down ore mobine.
so long the northern buttress of the Allied lipe and has been drenched NEW ENEMY INFANTRY ATTACKS with British blood as no other battle
PRISONERS AND MACHINE- GUNS CAPTURED,
Loxtos, April 20. .1:20 p.m. Field Marshal Sir Douglas "Raig roposta :---
field has been, but they emphusias that it is for Generalissimo Foch to decide whether it is too costly to hold or so vital that every effort muss be made to recover the positions Invent where the Germans are now threaten |ing?it. The conclusion drawn from The hostile attack reported in the the course of events is that Germany neighbourhood of L'Ocre yesterday is far from achieving a quick deci was repulsed by our fife and son, and we must expect beavy and machine-gun fire.
continuous fighting all summier and The enemy opened a heavy bom-autumn bardment, with high explosives and The Times, which has not been gus-shells this morning on the whole duly optimistic, says: There Front from Metern to Vobrtizeele, growing conviction that
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Hostile artillery was very active ut night-time on the Scarpe, to Lens, and between Givenchy and Nieppe Forest Ware-captured frst night the post
taken by the enemy on the night of the 28th-27th.
cur.
This will be battle and it is not going quite as Field-Marahat von Hindenburg General Ladendorf had planned and
We foot overs and 53 machi THE AMERICAN REVIEW
guns.
We also captured a number of prisoners and four machine-guns in the mid southward of Albert and in the neighbourhood of Neuville- Vilasse,
FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT.
VILLERS EURIOUSLY
BOMBARDED
LONDOy, April 20, 1.30 amd
U.S.A.'S IMPERATIVE DUTY.
WARRINGTO April 29
The War Department's Weekly Review
While admitting that the situation
is les satisfactory, owing to the lower : of Kernel, the cutcome of the pre-
sent operations in the West
on man power. The
tempt to paralyze the will-power of the British Con
A French communiqué "states failed owing to the
There were furious bombardments command of the Allies
at Villere Bretonneux, or the Luce tended the operations to o broader and rest of Noyon
SITUATION REVIEWED.
NEES DISTINCTLY HEARTENING.
HEAVY AND CONTINUOUS. FIGHTING ALL SUMMER AND AUTUMN,
Luxbox, April 29,
field, presenting their full and untest strength to a hostile attack, to defent the enemy's intention to achieve decision-and ending the war by th destruction of the Allied force fell before odd
ench levies and forcements can take up tions,
It is the imperative dus United States to put
The week-end reports from the men in the field immediate root are distinctly heurtening, calling up a very large quota to showing that the Germans were
prevented from exploiting the Kem The conception of mei suzce, thanks to the stout Command by an en resistance of the British and Frenchment to force the ret
indeed, the enerny British how Arts and
On the whole,
has been somewhat pushed back, losing more heavily even thun
he did
capture Arrus, and Amiens
when storming Mount Kominelit The wipe out the Yprea
The Atmerican units French at L'Oere the Britiah at
action in various enga Vormezeol-two local points of
acquitted themselves well
fighting fought with very furious. ders
tonecity. Though neither place can
be called vital to any line of defence,
AT RE
#rid
yet the resistance hampered the proTHE KAISER AT THE FRONT grues of the enveloping movement
WATCHES THE SLAUGHTER ory now seems, ba which the directing against the next chain
Little doubt is entertained fed to roll up the Bribah rmy from Givenc
rike north- Arras his decided to
Poda