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Show TEUTONS Ft OH FLANDERS FRONT BRITISH HOLD FIRM AND RE-PULSE RE-PULSE GERMANS, INFLICTING HEAVY LOSSES. Frenchmen Win Two Battles, Pushing Huns Back to the East of Avre River and Capturing Heights Dominating the Avre. London. The British held firm throughout Thursday against all the furious (iennan onslaughts on the Flanders fronts. (lood news also comes from the Amiens theatre. The French, according to the Paris official communique, attacked the southern side of the (.ernian spearhead, spear-head, menacing Amiens, surging forward on a front of two miles and three-quarters, on the Avre river between be-tween Thenncs and Mailly-Kainoval. To thej-ast of the Avre river they pushed the Hermans hack and on the west hank they captured the greater part of Seneca t wood as well as the outskirts of the village of Caste!, where the Cernian lines were pointed wedgelike at Amiens from the southeast. south-east. Further south the French reached the western slopes of the heights dominating domi-nating the Avre. The result of this counter thrust, local lo-cal and limited as it is, reduces the Cernian menace to Amiens from the southeast materially. There is a strong feeling here that the operation neans li.e beginning of a large scale counter offensive against the southern leg of the Cerman-Amiens wedge. In Flanders the expected Cerman infantry in-fantry assaults on the liritish right developed. They proved costly- failures. fail-ures. New heavy losses were inflicted on the dense onstorming columns of the enemy, who did not gain a single foot of new ground. lie was equally unsuccessful southeast south-east of Ypres, in his frantic efforts to scale or mask the great Kemmel height and the ridge trending westward. |