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LONDON, April 30% Reuter's Correspondeur at Britisà HINDENBURG ACCEPTING

Hondquarter state tint the bitter APPALLING SACRIFICES.

Aghting continued throughout yester day night ami to-day. The Germans VAIN ATTEMPTS TO RECAP--

are throwing i fresh troops at the TERR LOST GROUND.

vital points as best as possible which" LONDON. April “29.

our artillery is gradually subduing. Router's Correspondent at French Our machinegan "positions are Headquarters, telegraphing on April favourably established

the Scarpe Valley. 27, states:-

Since the ballie began, reinforeè- ja Horus was the scrate of very bitter ments equalling ahust the whole of Eghting owing to its tactical value, the origiau! defending force, have the enemy sacrificing men in droves beer poured in on the Gemuan posi. trying to keep is "out,"

inos. Field-Marsial von Hinden burg is throwing in reserves and accepting the appalling sacrifices in A vain effort to recapture the lost ground. Our adversaries in the Champagne are in no way restricting their bombardiment which nges daily in tost furious tornadoes of fire mul prgcede the German attacks on the French positions which the French have maintained, despite the assaults of tertun by onionious US

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WEARING DOWN THE ENEMY,

Losmos, April 29. Reuter's Correspondent at Head- „ quarters says that doubtless the therman conintuniques will continue to make what upital they can out of the fact that we have not broket throgh, although none know better' than the Gvenian High Command how misleading the phase of the battle rolly is What we are doing remembered that the battles in the pressing hack the Hur legions Champagne and at Artois on two upon a front" which has so far. wings of a Singh strategical opera renciful ä length of fifty miles, and tion on a front which is really con- 4 Wearing them down as thes go, util tinnonsly" netive between Tans and the stage must inevitably be reached Auberice, the French, for the time! When their powers of further res'st- being, wearing down the Gerragnans will be broken.

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mplete defent of the Ger man uy can only be needimplished by this process of destruction and the tugties of massed resistance are a bastening: dur approach to the only, end which can glorify the great sacrifice.

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THE CAPTURE OF AHLEUX

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Loxtos. April 29. Field-Marshu Sir Dougld's Haig reports:--...

Severe fighting, in which we have

Viny. The main gul was the Oppy in the advantage, hum been in switch line, otherwise the Drocourt | progress throughout the day from Queunt line which had been hastily the Scarpe river to the Acheville- constructed oft a northerly extensica Vitny zoud.

of the Hindenburg line. The fight- We captured Arleux-en-Gohelle ing was forest, between, Oppy and fund the enemy's positions on over Roux where there are nann-rous two miles of front, to the north and traverses, redoubts and machine-gun south of the village. We also pro posts between our and the German gressed to the north-east of Gavrelle positions and Was the scene of and on the western slopes of Green- the deter land, Hill, between "Gavrele and fluctuating struggles us minied, British pressure met the most Roeux, and to the southward of the

"river. desperate counter-attacks,

It is reported that Field-Marshal von Hindenburg was so amoyed at the Vimy defeat that he is now throwing in bis reserves and has ordered them to atard regurilless of sacrifices. There was nothing on

We also gained ground to the northward of Monchy-le-Preux.

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We captured several hundred prisoners.

Four enemy aeroplanes were brought down. Three of outs, are

imber ad fury of the present counter-seks, us, for instance, the counter-attack at Gavrulle to-day, which was the fifteenth since the Germans lost tle place. Once near missing. Oppy, five waves of Germans ad- COUNTER-ATTACK BROKEN UP. vanced, blindly facing an appalling Bre, in an attempt to retake the lost positions. An explosive torrent of heavy abcils gashed their ranks and the survivors who progressed were met by Geldgun fire and continuous wards of Arieux-en-Gobelle was

LONDON, April 29. Field-Marshal. Siz Douga Haig

reports

A strong counter-attuck at night on our new positions to the north-

#prays of Maxim rifle bullets. till broken up,

The fighting continues at places to the counter-attack utterly collapsed, the north of the Scarpe. Often the British rifles deculed the rout of the Germans, but frequently there werd deadly personal grapples in which bayonets were used, but more often the butts of the rifles,

NEARLY 1,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

IN A DAYASA

LONDON, April 29, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports -

The muddy battlefield of last week disappeared and was replaced by We captured this morning a trenchy clouds of dust obscuring the sunshine system to the south of Opps, on's mile front. There was heavy fighting and a of the otherwise blue and golden day, stubben resistance and anɔ several

The British crossed the Gerinan anarcessful counterattacks.

We have taken since “yesterday. line to the west of Oppy and from

moning 976 prisoners. here to the village in the centre.

We brought down thred, ferman1 - The fightings went on throughout the aeroplanes and three of ours day, especially at Greenland Hill missing which is a knoll to the south-west of Oppy, bverlooking the Scarpe Valley.

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