The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-25
Germans VainIy Thrust Again and
Again At French. Positions On
Deadman's Hill As Joffre
Strikes In Argonne District
FRENCH HAND GRENADES -.
WIN CAILLETTE GROUND
Turks Claim Defeat Of Russians
In Caucasus and To Have
Driven British Back In Egypt:
Smuts Reports Fresh Victory
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- 0NDON, April 25.-The scales OF
war are fitting this way and that,
according to the dispatches re-
ceived here from the different battle
fronts yesterday.
In the western theater of the war,
where for ten weeks the Germans have
been battering at Verdun, gaining here
and there after the first desperate rush,
and being forced back here and there
by the French defenders in other
places. the fighting has died down. un-
til only the rumble of the Grown
Princes heavy guns are to be heard on
the battered lines. .s LGs
Teuton Thrust Vain q Il, &. VI
Another fierce assault against the
famous Mort lHomme hill IL, repofted
by Berlin,t and the French add that the
assailants hhxe been thlWst basl ~
losses that would appear large in any
other lighting. In the Caillette woods
French hand grenades won some
ground. 'f WIS. p H.8
In the Argonne the French have
taken the offensive and REPORT gains
In the fighting there. Here too the
French made use of the hand grenade
method Mat proved so effective in the
battle north of Verdun. .-and the reports
assert that the Teutonic losses were
heavy. .'# "sE e..,E.
French Loss Heavy " ,..... ..-. 81
Berlin in it's official statement of the
fighting around Yerdun declares that
all of the Galiie attacks upon the Teu-
tonic positions suffered severe revers-
es, being broken up under the curtain
fire of the German cannon aud ma
! chine guns, or beaten back by the in
fantrymen defending the Teutonic
trenches.
The Paris official communidue reports
that French aviators successfully BON.
barded German positions at Longuyon
and Stcnay Dun. .%' = r..
In German East Africa General
Smut, former commander of the Boer
forces, ana now leading the British
columns against the German native
levies, has won another important po-
sitiOn in the capture, announced last
II ght, of Kondoa, railroad center.
The German losses there are said to
have been very heavy, and the enemy
is retreating closely followed by the
| British troops.
British Defeated
In Egypt, where the British forces
have been encountering Turkish troops
and tribesman, the British have not
been so successful, according to des-
patches from Constantinople. There
the white men are said TO have been
driven back from the little town of
Quatia, to Deuidar. Here the Turks
attacked them again and were repulBed
with a fearful casualty total. ~.
COnstantinOple also claims to have
successfully checked the Russian adj
vance in Southern Armenia, and to
have defeated the Slavs in battle in
the Caucasus. This is fatty denied in
the dispatches from Petragtad, which
declares that the Turkish attempts at
an offensive were easily broken, and
that an attack upon the Russian posi-
tionS in the neighborhood of Kharput
was thrown back. ..r y.
AViators Active h.z..... .r
The Germans were active in the air
yesterday. A hostile acceptance is re-
ported to have appeared above Dover,
but did no damage, turning to fee as
soon as British hiers rose to attack.
Zeppelin raids are reported from the
eastern counties, but no details of the
damage done were given last night.