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Show GERMAN DIE 01 Selected Teuton Troops Eject the French From Left Bank of the Aisne Canal, but Are Expelled Ex-pelled From Most of Captured Trenches. BRITISH CAPTURE TWO MORE TOWNS Russians Enter Mesopotamia Mesopo-tamia From Persia; Effect Junction With English Patrols; Turks xFight to Prevent Slavs From Crossing River. - - r.ViIS. Apiil : 11:10 p. m. Picked German t roops made a powerful attack iiciinM the French tc.lay to the northwest north-west of P.heims alonsr a mile and a half front. Their object was to clear the left bank of the canal of the Aisne,. and they succeeded in their enterprise at certain points. Over the. grea ter part of this front, however, according to the war office, the attack failed, the French reoccupyiner all of their first-line trendies. The battle is etill In progress. The statement reads: Between the Somme and the Oise t he German artillery violently bombarded bom-barded our positions north of Urvil-lers. Urvil-lers. The vigorous reply of our batteries bat-teries silenced the enemy's guns. There was an intermittent artillery action on the west bank of the Oise and south of thu Ailette river, but no infantry action. On the western border bor-der of the Argnnne. after a lively bombardment, t ho Germans carried out a surprise attack on one of our trenches north of Yienne-le-Chateau. The enemy, who made use of flaming liquid, was repulsed by our barrase Are and left dead and prisoners in our hand s. .rnt invest of Knetms, a uennan attack, at-tack, announced In the preceding communication, against our positions between Sapisne.ul and the Godaie farm, developed on a front of 2500 meters. The enemy had assembled, numerous special troops for the as- sault. with t lie object of driving us from the left bank of the canal of the Aisne. as proved by orders found on (iead officers or prisoners. The xtack completely failed over the fcrNiter part of the front, where we reortupicd almost immediately our ' first-line trenches. Counter-attacks are under way for the reer.pt uro of some elements that the enomv still hold. This afternoon, on the left hank of the Mouse, our suns caught under their fire north of Hill 301 a German troop, whu-h suffered heavy losses. In Lorraine. in the region of Gremecy. we shelled a train, of which several wagons weio burned. Belgian ''omnium cat ion: Throughout Through-out t lie nisht there was sustained ar- tillery activity : today the Belcian batteries shelled German works northeast north-east of Oix m ude. Spirited bomb and grenade fichtincr took place at Steen-cstraete Steen-cstraete and in the direction of Dix-mude. Dix-mude. 1 'astern theater: On April 4 cannonading can-nonading occurred alonjc the whole front between the Yardar and the lakes, especially in the region of Tsrvena Stena. British aviators bombarded an enemy aviation park at Hudovo. BRITISH CAPTURE VILLAGES AFTER SHARP FIGHTING I.OXPOX. April 5. 1:4.; p. m. The capture of the villages of Ronfsov and Basse-Bouloun1. in the se-.'tor noitlieast of revenue, is announced by the war office. of-fice. The announcement follows: We captured the villages of Rons-goy Rons-goy and Basse-Boulogne after sharp fiizhtins. in which we took twenty-two prisoners and three machine guns. The retreating enemy was eaupht in Ids own wire entanglements and suffered heavily under our machine jj:p fire. I'ast and northeast of Metz-en-luire our troops continued to Vike proKi'.-s in ti;e tare of consider-iiSle consider-iiSle resist. nice anil readied the west-cm west-cm a nil sou t h wes t ern ed ses of Gou- ze;;'0irt wood and Havrineourt wool. (Continued on Page Eight.) GERM! DRIVE 01 RUMS IS STOPPED (Continued from Page One.) We raptured here, further, sixty prisoners, two trench mortars and two machine, kuiis. RUSSIANS TO JOIN BRITISH TROOPS IN MESOPOTAMIA PETROGRAD. April 5. via Tendon. 4:3r, p. in. British .admiralty per Wireless Wire-less Presst. Russian cavalry has occupied occu-pied the Mesopotamia!! frontier towns of Ivhanlkin and Kasrlchlrln. says an official of-ficial statement issued today by the Russian Rus-sian war Oepa i tmenl. The statement follows: In the direction of Khanikin our cavalry detachments, pursuing the enemy, en-emy, decupled Ka.srichirln and Khanikin Khani-kin and are engaged In battle near the s village of Dekke. northwest of Khanikin, Khani-kin, with the Turkish rear suard. which Is endeavoring to prevent us from crossing the Dl--la river. With tho purpose of -joining the British, a Cossack detachment nas been dispatched dis-patched from Khanikin to Kizil Ho-bat. |