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Show HEAVIEST FIGHTING OF WAR GOING OH SKY ALIGHT FOR MILES WITH FLASH OF SHELLS AND VARICOLORED VARI-COLORED ROCKETS. Germans Bring up Strong Reserves and Throw Full Force Against British and French in the Battle of Arras. London The battle of Arras, which had been smouldering for a week past, burst into flaming fury again on Monday, Mon-day, with some of the heaviest lighting of the war in progress. The sky was alight for miles with the flashes of guns, with star shells that spread a moonlight paleness over the battlefield and with vari-eolored rockets, which flash signals to the opposing op-posing artillery. The cold east wind carried the echoes of the reverberating reverberat-ing cannonade far back of the British lines. The fighting covered approximately an eight-mile front, from south of Vimy ridge to a point well below Croisilles. At the north end of the attack the British Brit-ish swept over German fixed positions running almost due south from Lens and captured long sections of German positions in front of the Hindenburg line and a great number of prisoners. The Germans were undoubtedly throwing their full force into their resistance re-sistance along the Scarpe. They had brought up strong reserves to oppose a further British advance and had thrown in scores of new batteries of artillery. |