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Show GERMAN AHACK ON THE BRITISH St. Eloi is a Point of Contention Conten-tion on the Front Held by English Soldiers. London, April 6. Not only have the Germans been engaged In heavy fighting with the French around Verdun, Ver-dun, but they have launched a strong attack against the new British positions posi-tions near St. Elol, which lies a tev, miles south of Ypres. In an endeavor to regain 600 yards of trenches which the British won Trom them ten days ago. The fighting around St. Elol proceeded throughout the day nd had not terminated when the latest British official statement was Issued. There have been gains on both sides. The Germans captured the village of Haucourt, which lies in the Avocourt-Bethincourt, sector to the northwest of Verdun. This is considered con-sidered by tlie Germans as an Important Import-ant strategic point, for while the French held it the Germans could not cross the Forges brook. Of this operation, the French war office says a series of attacks, In which large numbers of men took part, followed a bombardment of ex-oreme ex-oreme violence. These attacks wero checked by the French fire, but one more furious than the others, launched launch-ed at the cenf;r against the village of Haucourt, resulted In the Germans gaining a foothold, "in spite of repeated re-peated chocks and bloody sacrifices.'' On their side, the French forces carried a large section of the position north of Avoncourt. known as the Bois Carre, and In severe hand-to-hand fighting south of Fort Douau-mont Douau-mont drove the Germans back through their underground passages for a distance dis-tance of 200 meters along a front of 500 meters They succeeded also bv their curtain of fire in preventing an assault on the Cote du Polvre. to the east of the Meuse. which the Germans Ger-mans had subjected to a long and intense bombardment. The French war office officially announces an-nounces that during the month of March a total of 35 German aeroplanes aero-planes were destroyed and that the French aerial losses amounted to only 13 aeroplanes. This is doubtless In reply to the German statement recently re-cently issued to the effect that in March the British and Frpnch lost 4-4 aeroplanes, while the Germans lost only 114. Another town in Mesopotamia, Fe-lahie, Fe-lahie, has been captured by the British, Brit-ish, which brings the relieving forces so much nearer to Kut-el-Amara, where General Townshend and his command have been beleagiiered for many months The capture of Fe-lahie Fe-lahie was preceded by a succession of assaults on the entrenched position of the Turks at Umm-el-Henna, the Turks being driven out of five lines of trenches. A Spanish cabinet council has been called to consider the question of the torpedoing of Spanish vessels |