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H MONT War Office Reports Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- I I mans Are e Preparing Third Great Drive to Wipe Out En By United Press N NEW V R YORK April 23 The Thc The Germans are are ae preparing for fora a third drive to be launched against again t the tile British ri sh between n nArras Arras and the Somme according I t to official British w wa ar office oice r reports t th here today oday r. r The h pera the W west are proceeding according t to t plans evolved by General Foch the com corn states The Germans ar arnow are arenow arenow now preparing preparing- a a further offensive between Arras and the Somme It It is extremely probable that the British will have to meet this third great enemy effort on on a a. a similar scale I 1 The still still greatly outnumber outnumber outnumber ber ber the British the report states adding adding- that on March 21 Germany had three eighty-three s surplus divisions concentrated in the angle where the British and French lines joined The enemy is prepared to attack both fronts as a consequence of his central 1 positions and e excellent railway railway railway rail rail- way way system He can concentrate In Pi cardy against the British or In the Champagne agai against st the the French quicker than the allies can concentrate concentrate concentrate concen concen- reserves says the reports British losses have been exceedingly exceeding exceeding- ly heavy the cable states and as a result of a months month's continuous fightIng fightIng fight fight- Ing ing- Haig's Haigs army Is very tired The exact casualties cannot be given the tile states They have fought an entire month against German forces three times their strength Almost the tile entire British army has been engaged d. d One-fourth One of the French troops have been engaged engaged engaged en en- and their losses are less than one-fourth one of those suffered by the British According According- to the tile cable the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans concentrated troops i against ag Haigs Haig's army Intending intending- to completely annihilate it by one I master stroke Canadians Launch I Fierce Attacks By Associated Press CANADIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE April 23 The The Canadians during durIng- the tho last twelve hours hourI have raided the German lines at seven places laces gassed the enemy with thousands of lachrymatory and lethal shells harassed him by special artillery artillery artil artillery lery shots swept his trenches with machine gun and rifle rine bullets and and hammered his front line with trench mortars In some of the tile raids sharp fighting developed in one instance protracted hand to hand fighting taking pla place e this struggle being being- so intense that the Canadians were unable to take prison prison- ers era The seven raids together netted five prisoners and two machine machine guns Two of the tho prisoners have since died FIGHT ALL NIGHT From dusk until dawn the whole front has been lively north and south of ot Lens The Tile ceaseless rumble of ot our heavies which are neutralizing hostile batteries by calculated and continuous gas shelling has been accompanied by bythe bythe bythe the sharper chorus of our field artillery artillery artillery artil artil- lery carrying out ou oua a particularly harassing fire lire program Periodically our artillery fire tire has reached a barrage Intensity in support of at raiding raiding- parties Regularly the tile boche bocho lines have been lit up with scores of flares betraying the nervousness which has been produced produced produced pro pro- among among- the enemy by such ac activity activity activity ac- ac as he has pot ot known on his front for weeks The enemy has been forced to fire his guns under gas clouds and in gas masks He JIe has inks betrayed the effect of our tactics by the diminishing diminishing- volume of his Ills fire but buthe he has made answer to Continued on page 6 6 J TWO MILLION HUNS Continued from page 1 our our general raiding and gas activities by projecting much tear gas against our positions north of Lens GAS ATTACK FAILS This projection was bigger in volume vol vol- vol- vol ume time than anything ever attempted against the Canadians Its effect beyond be be yond discomfort was slight Evidence E from mm enemy sources gives ground for belief that it far from otherwise with the boche Ills His gas is not so 50 effectual and his masks are not nearly as good goodas as as' as ours O Ot Of the batteries batteries' bombarded by our gunners during the last twelve hours I i many will not be heard from for some time Continuous forcible feeding for such a protracted period on lethal and I tear gas mixed with high explosives i ihas has proved too successful before to doubt Its destructive virtue now Unable Unable Un Un- able to Oth obtain t rubber to give the 1 masks I that close s fit which hll is essential en for full protection the Germans' Germans protective protective protective pro pro- measures fall short of our own and the enemy gunners must have suffered heavily under our bombardment bombardment bombardment bombard bombard- ment for we used nearly shells against some thirty battery positions Our 45 howitzers secured six direct hits on concrete shelter shelters in the Avion dl district |