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banks Of The Meuse to-day the German forces
gained ground from the French. The Off
ciai communication reads as follows On
the lett bank of the Mouse, u bombardment
of extreme violence which lasted without
cessation for two days IN the region of Hill
3O4 was followed to-day by q powerful Ger
man attack delivered against our front be-
tween 3O4 and Deadman's Hill. The enemy
after repeated efforts penetrated the under
ground passage ways east of Hill 3O4.
Everywhere else he was repulsed with serious
losses inflicted by our machine-guns and
batteries, which euergetically bombarded
his lines. On the right bank after intense
artillery preparation the Germans delivered
several successive attacks against our trench
es between Haudremont Wood and Fort
Douaumont. In the western part of the
front the enemy attacks gained q footing for
an extent of about 500 metres IN our first
line. To the centre and east all the attacks
were broken. In the Woevre there was
great artillery activity in the sectors at the
foot Of the Meuse hills. There were DO events
of importance on the rest of the front ex-
cept the usual cannonading. The Belgian
official communication reads An artillery
action of feeble intensity occurred i'll the
sector of Dixmude where our guns lombard
ed berges in the Hauhzaeme canal.
London, May 6th.-Addresslng his Con
stituency at Conway. Wales, this afternoon,
Mr.. Lloyd George defended his demands tor
compulsion, the necessity for which he said
arose last September. Compulsion, the Min
lister said, simply meant that The country was
organizing itself in an orderly, consistent and
resolute manner for war. He declared it had
never been said that Great Britain could
raise as many men in proportion to popuIa-
ton as could France. This, he said, was
impossible, US Great Britain supplied France
and the other Allies with steel coal, materials
and munitions, and maintains the greatest
navy in tie world. There was however a
considerable margin still of men available
for war if the need arose for increasing the
army. Women more and more were coming
to he rescue in the muuition work. There
were nearly 100000 women, Mr.. Lloyd
George said, engaged upon tasks which
before the war it never would have been
dreamed women were capable of discharglng.
As the result of this the country had increas-
ed enormously not merely the out put but
It's capacity to fun uish munitions OF war.
Berlin, May 7th.-The British submarine
E 81 was sunk by gun fl Q from a German
warship to the west # Horn Reefs off the
west coast of Denmark, on the morning of
May 5th., it was announced by the German
Admiralty today. The Admiralty reports
also the destruction of a hostile aeroplane
by German airmen with the help of a torpe-
do boat off the coast If Flanders and the
capture of another aeroplaue by torpedo
boats. 1t also adds that the Zeppelin
L 7 which has been reported 10y the British
as destroyed in the North Sea failed to re4
turn from a recommending trip.
London, May 7th-Lord Robert Cecil,
Minister of War, Trade and Parliamentary
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in a
statement given to an Associated Press
correspondent, deals with the charges against
Great Britain and Germonv's avowed desire
for pence as contained in the German reply
to the United States Note on submarine war
fare. After recalling alleged inhdman prac-
tees by Germany through employment OF
submarines, Zeppelins, poisoned gas and high
explosive shells, Lord Robert on the issue of
peace says: "Of German overtures, if such
they are to be called, ] Will say little. 1t
was only in last December that their Chan
cellor declared that we believed 1T to
be in our interests to fttrlbute falsely
to them peace proposals. Yet the German
Government now says, twice within the last
few months Germany has announced before
the world her readiness to make peace. Which