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Show i GERMANS SACRIFICE ; THEIR MEN IN VI I Hundreds Killed and Thou- j sands Wounded in Effort to Regain Position. FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Grand Headquarters of the Frenrh Armies in France, June 2. The Germans have sacrificed hundreds of killed and thousands thou-sands of wounded in their vain efforts to regain the range of hills comprising i Mont' Carnillet, the Casque, the Teton and Mont Haut, east of Rheims. Since May 20 their fruitless assaults have numbered sixteen. Tho last important assault was car-i car-i ried out on the night of May 30, and for this selected German regiments were especially trained and rehearsed I behind thoir own lines before they were' thrown against the French lines. But they only met w-ith disaster. On this occasion the lirst and second assaulting waves were everywhere annihilated an-nihilated before they were half way to the French positions. A few men in the. waves that followed obtained a footing in the French lines and the fiercest bayonet duels ensued, in which all the German assaulting forces were ; killed except in one trench, where a ' German detachment held out until day- v break. These men were then wiped out in a French counter-attack. A visit to Mont Carnillette demonstrates demon-strates the importance the Germans at-f at-f tached to this place and the extraordi nary preparations made to hold it in order to preserve the observatories from which the Germans were able to watch the French, artillery. Inside the hills the Germans had excavated a tunnel ; with three exits on the northern slopes, i There was space sufficient to hold three j battalions with ten days' rations, and ! big ammunition depots. Above the tun- f nel were many deep shelters and ma chine gun emplacements and pits for i grenadiers. ! The existence of the tunnel was un- ' known until the French offensive on ; April 17, when, after the first French waves passed, the Germarf occupants ! sortied and fired upon them from the rear. On May 20, after terrific artil- I lery preparation with sixteen-inch and ' gas shells, the French made a second ! attempt, and won the crest and the I northern slopes of Mont Carnillet. The French awaited a counter-attack from the garrison of the tunnel similar to ! that of the 17th, but none occurred, i A German officer captured near one of the ventilating shafts of the tunnel ; also expressed astonishment at the ab sence of reaction by his comrades. He , was caught while endeavoring to call the garrison out. Later it was found that the entire garrison had perished. It comprised six companies of the Four Hundred and Seventy-sixth German infantry in-fantry regiment, two machine gun companies, com-panies, two sections of pioneers, an ambulance am-bulance unit, and signal detachment, besides be-sides a- number of artillery, off icers. Since this French success the German Ger-man artillery has been greatly hampered, ham-pered, owing to lack of observation facilities. fa-cilities. The fire of the Germans bas, as a consequence, been most erratic, knd Vnskix infantry attacks here, therefore, there-fore, been doomed to failure. |