New Britain herald., 1915-04-13
GERMANS SLOWLY
 GAIN GROUND IN
 LE PRFTRE FOREST
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 ground.
 There has been no change on the eastern front
 German Report. Via. London. Berlin, April 13, Via. London, S:15 p. m.-The German army headquar- ters today gave out the following an nouncement:
 'In the western arena: The French assert they dropped 150 bombs on the railway station and near the beach at !! Ostend and on foundry at Bruges. As matter of fact nine bombs fell in the neighborhood of Ostend and two in Bruges without doing any damage. In return we dropped numerous bombs during last night on the villages of Popperinghe, Hazebrouk and Kassel which gre occupied by British troops.
 "At Bergebat French troops pene- trated into one of our trenches dur ing the night but were immediately repulsed. An attack by aviators of the enemy in the region to the east of Rheims resulted in failure. To the northeast of Suippe shells de- veloping asphyxiating gases again were used against Us.
 French Attacks Futile. Between the Mouse and the Moselle the French continued their attack at certain places with great 1erceness but without success.
 Three attacks during the early morning at Maizerey near Verdun, broke dow; under our fire with very Eeavy losses. Attacks were com rnenced during the afternoon and evening at Marcheville, southeast of Maizerey, during which the enemy brought up strong columns. They came to an end with the same result. An attack was begun at daybreak against the front between Maizerey and Marcheville, but was repulsed with very considerable losses to the enemy. Germans Gain Ground
 'In the Forest of LePretre fighting at close quarters took place through out the day and night of yesterday during which we gained ground slow ] 1y.
 "A French attack last night at a point south of Hartmanns-W Weilerkopf | was repulsed. -L
 There has been no change in the 1 eastern arena of hostilities.'
 There is a discrepancy In the trans lation of the German official state inent as transmitted by way of Lon don compared to the statement re- ceived by wireless telegraph, the wireless version refers to the east ern suburbs of Bruges, while the Lon don account translates the same words into reference to Ostend.
 French Official Report.
 
 m.-The French war departments of- ficial statement given out this after l noon says: Between the sea and the Aisne l there is nothing to report except few i artillery duels. Gain German Trench.
 To the East of Berry-au-Bac, we gained the possession of a German | trench. l. "In the Argonne there were mining l K operations and engagements of bomb l E and grenade throwing between our | own and the enemy's trenches F Between the Mouse and the Moea- l selle our forces succeeded at several points in coming in contact with tho wire entanglements of the enemy's defense.
 
 Paris, April IS, 11:1O a. m.-The marine ministry issued the following statement today:
 Yesterday a battleship, in connec- tiCn with French seaplanes, bom- Sarded the important Turkish en- campment in the neighborhood of Gaza."
 Fierce Struggle in Bukowina.
 Paris, April 13, 5:15 a. m--A fierce l struggle continues in Bukowina, ac- cording to despatch to the Petit | Parisian from Bucharest. The Aus l trians are reported to have despatched l two armored trains against the Rus sians near Bojana, yesterday. They l were met by a terrific fire from the Russian artillery. One of them | crawled back to Czernowitz badly l damaged but the other was blown | up. Austrian troops which followed | the trains delivered two furious at tacks, but are said to have been re- pulsed.
 The despatch says that four ves- sels loaded with troops, ammunition 1 and war materials for Serbia passed | Oltenitza, 8 Rumanian town on the | Danube yesterday. They were loud | ly cheered by the Rumanians.
 Germans Lombard Ossoyvetz.
 London. April 13, 9:45 a. m.-The l following semi official statement is 1 sued at Petrograd last night is con- tained in a despatch to the Reuter- Telegram company: 1
 "Ossowetz was bombarded through out the day Sunday by S-inch howit- ! gers. The artillery of the forts re- piled, seriously d"rae'n" ~"e of the ennrny's siege '' 4 co" Ger r ars -riro 0 , "@ :a 0.e rafis against the forts, but they were