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Show BRITISH RECOVER ALL LOST GROUND IN HOOGE ATTACK By FREDERICK PALMER. (Spcil Cable br A rre n pemn t with Indon IH'.If Telegraph and Internf.tlonal' Nf Service.) BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IX , FRANCE, Aug. 9, via l,ondon, Aug, 10. By an attack at Hoogti this morning: the British not only recovered all the trenches lost before the flamfng German gas attack of August 1, but more, taking a front of a thousand yards. It was altogether al-together the most important offensive action in weeks. The British guns preceded It by shelling shell-ing the German positions on the part of the line in the Yser canal region north of Ypres yesterda y afternoon, to which the Germans replied in kind, including the heaviest shelling of the ruins of Ypres for two months. At 6:30 o'clock this morning the British guns loosed their thunder on the German trenches at Hooge and In front of Ypres. Two hours this continuous roar kept up before, at dawn, the British infantry rushed the German trenches at Hooge. Officers said the resistance was surprisingly surpris-ingly slight and either the artillery preparation prep-aration was most successful or the German Ger-man line must have been weaklv held. All through the day artillery 'on both sides continued covering the region of Hooge with shells, which was visible over the Hat country by the correspondent, correspon-dent, while the British were busy consolidating con-solidating their gains and preparing against any counter-attack. The' British Brit-ish took 150 prisoners and two machine guns. 0 |