Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-07
Teutons Launch Furious At
tack Which Succeeds at
Strategic Point, According
to Reports From Berlin,
DESPERATE STRUGGLE
ON BRITISH FRONT
Joffre, Through Succession Of
Brilliant Assaults, Receivers
Considerable Ground Lost
Near Avocourt, Paris Says,
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Not only have the Germans been
engaged in heavy fighting with the
French around Nerdun, but they have
launched a strong attack against the
new British positions near St Eloi,
which lies few miles south of Ypres,
| in an endeavor to regain 500 yards Of
trenches which the British won from
them ten days ago. The fighting
around st. Eloi proceeded throughout
| the day and had not terminated when
the latest British official statement
was issued.
There have been gains on both
German and French sides. The Ger
mans captured the village of Hau-
court, which lies in the Avoc0urt-
! Bethincourt sector to the northwest
of Verdun This is considered by the
Germans as an important strategic
point, for, while the French held it,,
the Germans could not cross the
Forges brook
OF this operation the French war
office says u series of attacks. in
which large numbers of men took part,
| followed a bombardment of extreme
violence These attacks were check
ed by the French fire, but one more
furious than the others. LAUGHED at
the center against the village of Har-
court. resulted in the Germans gain
ing foothold, "in spite of repeated
checks and bloody sacrifices' The
French claim that this village is dom
mated by the French guns.
French Dust Germans.
On their side the French forces car
ried large section of the position
north of Avocourt, known as the Bois
Care, and in severe hand to hand
fighting south of Fort Douamont
drove the Germans back through
their underground passages for dis
tance of 200 meters along a front of
500 meters. They succeeded also by
their curtain of fire in preventing an
assault on the Cote du Poivre, to the
east Of the Meuse, which the Germans
had subjected to a long and intense
bombardment.
The French war office officially an
nounces that during the month of
March Il total of thirty-five German
aeroplanes were destroyed and that
the French losses amounted to only
thirteen aeroplanes. This is doubtless
in reply to the German statement re-
Gently issued to the effect that in
March the British and French lost
forty-four aeroplanes, while the Ger
mans lost only fourteen.
Another town in Mesopotamia, Eel
ahie, has been captured by the Brit
ish, which brings the relieving forces
so much nearer to kut-el- Amara,
where General Townshend and his
command have been beleaguered for
many months. The capture of Fca-
HE was preceded by a succession Of
assaults on the entrenched position
Of the Turks at umm ell Henna the
Turks being driven out of five lines
of trenches.
Spain Likely to Protest.
A Spanish cabinet council has been
called to consider the question of the
torpedoing of Spanish vessels
A German submarine has been sunk
by a squadron of French and British
warships. the crew being captured.
The British steamers Zcnt and Vesu-
vic also have been sent TO the bottom.
Forty-eight members Of the crew of
the Zent are missing Three of the
survivors of the Vesuvio were injured.