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Show CURSED PRUSSIANS ROCK WITH ALLIES IN DEATH GRIP Positions Taken and Retaken Re-taken as British Get Hold in BuIIecourtT By William Philip Simmt. (United Pre. Staff Correspondent.) WITH THr! BRITISH ARMIES IN THK KIKIJ. May . Sweating, swearing demons met and clinched and swayed and rolled backward and for" ward over the most nf ths British front today. Prussian officers, with Hin-denburg'a Hin-denburg'a words that he would not tolerate failure to hold or drive back the British seared on their mlnda. drove their men Into battle cursing and met determined British Tommies profanely reciprocal. Throughout the day the twrr sides struggled and pushed back and- forth. Positions were taken and retaken time after time. The British managed to get hold In Bnllecourt during the night by occupying severs! houses In the southeast comer. Bombing parties slipped out n the darkness and. twisting twist-ing through the streets and ruin, peppered pep-pered the boche In other -houses, or. penetrating still further, tried hand grenade treatment on the front and the supporting tranches of the Hfnden-burg Hfnden-burg ilne Itself running to tha east of the town. This sort of fighting continued con-tinued all through the night, tha British Brit-ish bombers meeting German Bomber, man meeting man, with ths butta of rifle and even fist called Into play. As dawn came the German' sallied out with stronger forces. The understanding under-standing this afternoon at headquarters headquar-ters was that the Herman had succeeded suc-ceeded in reoecupylng the whole of Bullecourt although the British clung tenaciously to their posts on three sides ft the town. Around Krennoy the Canadians stood off all further counter attack of the same violent sort that hsve been directed against them for twenty-four hours aud managed to wriggle still further forward up the German trenches to the north of tha village. Here also the advance was achieved mostly by hand grenade fighting and other close range work. New post were taken late today by the British to the southwest of Oppy wood and maintained against violent attacks. Karly thl morning the Germans tried In enter trenches to the north of lene following a vicious bombardment of half an hour. They were thrown back. Half an hour later the same sort of a raid was tried along tha Wulverghem and Wyschala road. Hera the heavy German artillery caused a number nf casualties among the Tommies, Tom-mies, but the raid Itself was fruitless. Information at headquarters thl afternoon aft-ernoon Indicated that the enemy has retaken Malakoff farm and also Troll Bsuvagea, It was real spring weather, but visibility visi-bility In. the entire region nf the fighting fight-ing was' poor, owing to a, low lying base of dust and smoke. At ths time -this dlxpatch was written writ-ten the fighting Is still In progress all along the. line, not a moment's cessa- BaEssMEsasBBBsaEaaBSEsaaaBBBBMBSBBEBBBBSSBB |