The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-04-11
Crown Prince Launches Fresh
Assaults On New Positions
y Taken Up BY Gallo Troops A.
ter Retiring From Bethincourt
ADDED GAINS. CLAIMED BY T.
BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT
Statement Says Teutons Have
Taken Two Thousand Yards
of Front After Desperate AS
sauIts On Haucourt Trenches
tAssOciatsd Press BY Federal wireless.

(Associated Press By Federal wireless)
r 0NDON, April Il--Stubbornly re-
sisting every attack of the Ger.
man hosts under the Crcwu Prince,
the French yesterday beat back again
and again assaults on the extreme ives.
tern flank of their positions defending
the fortress of Verdun, where for more
than six weeks the Teutons have been
ceaslessly .hammering the Gallo .Hnes.
Once more the reports from Paris and
from Berlin conflict but the general
opinion among the military critics here
II that French have been compelled to
straighten their lines east and south
of Bethmrourt, now isolated by the
= Gurmans, hat have made good their
stand at Cnmieres and Avocourt, de.
spite the continued offensive of, the
enemy. fqat4 rs..Es = z
The iereest fighting OF the dav was
south of the little brook of Forges,
which flows iuto the Meuse, north of
the town of Cumieres. This is on the
loft or western bank of the Meuse, and
there the Germans launched several at
t'cks during the day, ceasing their ar.
tillery fire only when their own in.
fantrvmen were endangered by the
bursting shells. ..,....'
Germans Sent To Slaughter
Time after time dense masses of Teu-
ton infantry were sent forward by the
generals commanding the assault, and
time after time they were slaughtered
by the French machine+guns and field
pieces that eut great gaps in the ranks
and left for the French infantry little
to do t0 defend the new line of
trenches. The stories of the tremend.
onS losses suffered by the Germans at
Vcrdun have become old stories now.
but the official ami semi Official reports
of the attack on the entertainments on
Forces creek yesterday indicate that
nothing, save perhaps the first attacks
on Douaumont fort, have proved SO
costly to the Kaiser's armies.
At another part of the western bank
positions the French were not so sue
cessful, although the actual reports
from Paris and Berlin conflict widely
as to the exact extent of the French
losses.
Germans Straighten Lines
Berlin says that the Germans there
STACKED near Haucourt, and drove
the Gallo defenders back over a front
of two thousand yards, to a distance
two'thirds of q mile south of the vii
lage. The reutonic dispatches also
claim that the Crown Prince there cap.
tured 800 prisoners, including fifteen
officers. They edd that fierce counter,
attacks by the French failed, after the
attacking forces had suffered fearful
l"ssas This gain is said to have
Strengthened the German lines before
Verdun, fiattening the last of the va
rious salients that the French had
clung too. or had driven into the Ger.
man positions.
Minor fighting Is reported in the Gail
lctte woods, where the German attacks
were easily defeated by the French
Sunners, and none of the desperate
charges reached even the outer lines
of the Gallic trenches, but melted away
under the fire OF machine gun, shell
and rife. #t. E.
Teutons Win ard Lose
The Paris despatch covering the
fighting Oh the west bank of the Meuse,
tells of tile German attacks and ad.
mits that Germans gained slight foot.
hold over front of 800 yards, while
the struggle for Cote L'Homme Mort
ended for the dav In the complete re-
pulse of every Teutoh drive.
In the Arras region the British have
been carrying on a series of minor at
tacks against the German positions,
and yesterday directed an assault
against the mine crater near St. EIoi,
recently captured by the Germans. The
attempt proved successful and the
crater is once more in the hands of the
Canadian t"oO's The Canadians al.
so Occupied line Of communication
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