Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-30 | Page 2 | German Claim 7100 Prisoners in Last Few Days

GERMANS CLAIM 710d PRISONERS IN LAST FEW DAYS By International News Service. BERLIN, via London, April 29. Since the storming of Mount Kemmel, the Germans Ger-mans in Flanders have taken 7100 prisoners, pris-oners, including 1S1 officers. They have captured in the same period fifty -three guns and 233 machine guns. These figures fig-ures were announced by the war office today. The statement says: On the Flanders battlefield, from midday onwards (yesterday), there was artillery fighting. Revised figures of the British taken by us since the storming of Mount Kemmel show that we have taken 7100 prisoners, including 181 officers, fifty-three guns and 233 machine guns. Between the La Bassee canal and the Scarpe, as well as north of the Somme, there was lively reconnolter-ing reconnolter-ing activity, by the English. Strong partial attacks by the French on Hangard wood and village were repulsed. On the eastern bank of the Meuse we raided the French" trenches, taking tak-ing a few prisoners.