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HARDEST FIGHT
 OF GREAT WAR
Terrific Slaughter on French and British Fronts in France-Ac- counts Conflict, but Allied
 Gains Are Steady

PARIS, April 21.-In the great battle on the southern front the French have made further progress north of the Alsne III Champaigne and in the Argonne forest Since Monday they have captured l9,ooO Germans and a hundred guns,
 South of Bouvncourt and east of Courcy the French troops have made further galns in grenade fighting The German attack against Monthaut has failed the war office announces.
 British Successes
 LONDON. April 2l.-The British troops last night captured the village of Connel1leu, on the front between St. Quentin and Gam brai, it was officially announced today.
 BRITISH HEADQUARTERS Frence April 22. The British have captured Gar vellc, the last of Hindenberg's lines ol dis patch north of the Scarpe river,
 Heaviest Fighting of War
 LONDON. April 24-The British armies in France, after some of the heaVlest fight ing of the war have captured an eightmile front from Nimy ridge to below Crolsees. The Germans threw their full force into an attempted rescue along the Scarpe, but lost many positions, and the British took more than a thousand prisoners.
 Genearl Haig reported this afternoon that he had made further progress to the east of Monchy, Leprux and Roeux and to the south of the St. Quentin Cambrai road, gam ing ground on wide front to the east ot Epsv. and reached the St. Quentin canal in the nelghborhood of Vendhuile. He also reported the capture of the villages of Fl- lers. Plouch and Beaucamp.
 German Resistance Decreases
 BRITISH HEADQUARTERS France April 24.--The resistance of the German armies seemed to decrease today with the British approach to Droucourt Queant, on 2 switch line which Is depended on by the Germans as the connecting link between their lines north of Sr Quentin and south of Lille
 Countless Thousands of Reserves
 LONDON. April 25.-Correspondents at the front wire that the hardest fighting of the war continues east of Arras, and that the Germans have brought up countless thousands of reserves ard are accepting battle in the open. They report also tha; the British have gained 8 good deal of ground and lost nothing.
 The general fighting of the last two days is reflected in the aerial operations. The British flying corps yesterday established a new record bringing down forty German machines. Fights took place at an altitude of 15,00O feet.
 General Haig reported this morning that he had captured 5000 Germans since Mon day.
 What Might Have Been
 BERLIN, April 25.-The war office as serts that the British might have suffered heavy sanguinary defeat through the fore sight of the general headquarters had it not been for the tenacious desire of the German troops for victory. Only on the Cambrai-Arras road did the British gain ground yesterday
 Eight Night Attacks
 LONDON, Sept. 2G,-The war office an- nounced today that eight counter attacks by the Germans during the night against Garvelle had failed.
 General Haig reports a further slight advance south of the Scarpe, and that thou sands of dead Germans are lying on the battlefield
 Germans Retain a Toe-Hold
 BERLIN April 26-The war office an nounced today that the Germans are hold ing the eastern boundary of Garvelle Sev- eral British attacks south of the Scarpe have been repulsed with heavy losses.