Show ML FAIL ON FLANDERS FRONT BRITISH HOLD FIRM AND RE PULSE GERMANS inflicting HEAVY LOSSES frenchmen win two battles pushing huna back to the east of avre river and capturing heights dominating the avre london 1011 don the held firm throughout thursday against fill all tile furious german onslaughts on oil fronts good news also coines from tile addens amiens theatre tile the french l according to t the I 1 to inroy official attacked ill UK southern side of the german benr licad menacing amicus surging forward on a front of two to nilles miles wid mul three on oil the avro avre river between thennes Th elines and N antl ly llna loyal to the east of the avre river they pushed the leri nalls buck back find on oil the lite u rest ost bunk bank they captured the lie grenter part of Sel lecat wood us its well us as tile mit outskirts skirts of the village of castel where title alm ginnan lanca were pointed nt lit Ani leris from the south iiii ii it 1 further tho the french reached the we western steril slopes of tile tho heights dominating the avre the result or of this aist local and limited its as it Is i reduces the german irne rince to ablona front from the southeast there Is it strong feeling here that the operation indans tio tile beginning of a large scale counter offen offensive ive against the s 0 11 t 11 e 1 11 leg of 0 the berinati airlena wedge in flanders the expected geranan infantry assaults on oil the right developed they proved cos costly fly failures now new heavy losses were inflicted on oil tile dense on storming colum coluin iii of the enemy who ho did not gain ti it single toot foot of now new ground ile ho was equally unsuccessful south cast of ypres cypres lit in ills his frantic efforts to to or mask the great height liel glit and the ridge trending west cst ward |