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OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ENEMY POSTS RUSHED,
LONDON, May 1 i2.20 p.m. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:-
We repulsed an attack on a post in the neighbourhood of St. Julien,
We rushed oneway posts in the Menren sector. taking a number of prisoners.
as the enemy' was wavering in the | face of furious fusillades, and a brief rout ensued. The French and› British took a large number of pri-- soners during the day, but they were · fower than the nugnitude of the struggle would lead one to expect. owing to the desperate hand-to-hand character of the fighting, t
Prison show considerable defec- tion at the failure of General von Armin's heavy thrust, and admit that the task ahead of the German Army
The French improved their poeiratens to bleed the Fatherland of tions in the neighbourhood of L'Ocre. its manhood.
AVIATORS BOMB ENEMY TROOPS.
LONDON, April 80. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, reporting on aviation, says:
Our aimmen dropped 275 bombe on, enemy troops eastward of L'Ocre and machine-gunned them.
TWO MILLION GERMANS ENGAGED.
MONTHS OF INTENSIVE FIGHT ING TO BE RECKONED.
LONDON, April 80, 11.50 p.m.
Reuter's Correspondent at French" We brought down eight enemy Headquarters, telegraphing to-day
machines.
Two of ours are missing..
THE FRENCH FRONT,
THE FOE EJECTED.
Lesbos, April 20,
2.20 a...
Yesterday the British Tanks assist-- ed the French infantry in clearing the German machine-gun nests from Hangard Wood. The enemy so far Ima engaged 140 Divisions, or nearly two million men, She has, besides,,
A French communiqué states:-in France fresh Divisions, which carr There was violent bombardment in still be brought into the fight, also the region of Hangard.
réserves in depots in France. · Ger- A German attack in the sector of many, therefore, it must be assumed; Noyon resulted in heavy fighting. can reconstitute her exhausted Divi..........
PRESS CORRESPONDENTS' REPORTS.
30 BATTALIONS AND NUMEROUS DIVISIONS EMPLOYED.
of
We ejected the enemy from ad- sions rapidly. What she cannot do vanced elemente, where in the fist is to reall the depleted units with rush we gained a footing and re officers and men of the same quality establislied our liner
and degree of training. Months intensive battle must be reckoned with before the enemy can be re- duced to a pitch of exhaustion.
PERILOUS WEEKS AHEAD. We have several perilous weeks before us, but we have every reason to await the issue calmly. The battle, as it progresses, presente analogies to that of Verdun, which ere of the best augury for the future. Germany's present, objectives are Reuters Correspondent at British Picardy and Flanders. If attained. Headquarters, telegraphing to-day, they will probably serve as a depar
tura line for a final great effort. As Yesterday's attack was the biggest their striking power was exhausted effort the Germans have yet made of the Meuse in 1018, so will it be during the Flinders offensive. The in 1918 on the Somme, the Avra and Germas are eploying about thirty they
BIGGEST GERMAN EFFORT IN FLANDERS."
Lexoos, April 80, 4.20 p.in.
Mesh battalions from close reserve, BELGIAN BOYS AND MEN BEHIND in addition to a large number of Divisions in positions at the begin|
ENEMY LINES.
ning of the battle. At one point the COMPELLED TO WORK UNDER French were forced to yield a little
THE WHIP. ground, but supports promptly ar rived and drove back the Germans.
A Hatisfactory feature of the struggle is that the Allies employed relatively small forces to defeat the enemy.
·HOMERIC, CHARACTER OF THE FIGHTING.
Beut
ENENY ROUTED.
Today buttle-feld,
Losnos, April 30,
It p Correspondent at British „felezaphing this even-
LONDON, April 80. Reuter learns that 25,000 Belgian men and boys are compelled to work militarily behind the German lines in the region of Valenciennes and Maubeuge alone, under the whip of Gennan sentris
The mortality in deportees camps is terrible:
Numbers are sent back as unft and replaced by freshy recruits.
BRITISH NAVY'S RECKLESS.
COURAGE
"ALLIED NAVAL COUNCIL'S->
TRIBUTE.
quiet on the Flanders.
French counter
LONDON, May 1 attack last evening was brilliantly
The Tatar Allied Naval Council has“ successful not only recovering
expressed to the British Navy their southern slope of ground on the Scherpenberg, but m advancing their Aditation of the coolness and reck- loas courage displayed in the attack lice to a depth of 1,000 yards astride. Ostend And Zeebrugge and the the Danones road. Ti Dore changed mpidity with which the bande several times, but finally the were achieved, despite the Germans were well beyond the difficulties, and the desperate
nce of the enemy eastern fringe of it.
The First Lord
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