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Show I Germans Renew Aggressive Northwest I of Verdun and Suffer Enormous Losses I . . H ! DENSE FORCES ATTACH FRENCH I LINES MEET COMPLETE REPULSE J 1 11 Curtain of Fire Accomrjimied by Withering Machine Gun Fire II Breaks Down All German Assaults French Aeroplane Hi: Squadrons Drop Bombs on Station at Sebastopol j and at Otlier Places Numerous Fires and Ex it plosions Follow. Ir London, May 1,5:11 p. m. The British steamship Hen- Ji donhall from Portland, April 1 7, and Louisburg, C. B., April If 1 1 for Rotterdam, has been sunk according to a dispatch to I i Lloyd's. The crew was saved. I The Hendonhall was 3994 tons gross. She was 345 feet I: long, 47 feet beam and 1 9 feet deep. The vessel was built in ' 1901 and owned by the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation ' company. ,; London, May 1, 12:20 p. m. The British steamship 1 1 City of Lucknow, 3,669 tons gross, and owned in Glasgow, I t has been sunk. $ New York, May 1 .: The French passenger steamer & Patria, which arrived here today from Naples and Palermo, II f reported that on her last outward voyage at ten a. m., April 5, iJt ' she was the target of a submarine torpedo attack in the Medi- terranean. The torpedo missed the ship by about ten feet, the officers said. I The rebel leaders in Dublin, having given up their fight for lost, the rank and file aie continuing to lay down their arms. Sniping is still reported from some sections of the city. All the leaders in the Irish revolt have now given! themselves up, according to official), announcement. Germans Renew Aggressive. The Germans have renewed their aggressive in force northwest of. Verdun, Ver-dun, "delivering a massed attack'oh the positions recently captured by the French, north of Deadman's hill, and counter-attacking also a trench they had lost north of Cumieres. In both cases tho assailants were repulsed, Paris declares. Unofficial advices from Constantinople Constanti-nople say that the Turks estimate at 20,000 men, the losses of the British during March and April in Mesopotamia, Meso-potamia, Berlin War Report. Berlin, May 1. The following announcement an-nouncement was made today at army headquarters: "Western front: The situation gen- orally Is unchanged. "German aerial squadrons conducted conduct-ed extensive bombardments of the enemy's encampment and magazines i west of Verdun. i "A French biplane was shot-down in , an aerial fight east of Royan." ' Paris, May 1, 12:01 p. m. German S troops in dense masses made a violent vio-lent attack lost night on positions cap-1 cap-1 1 tured by the French north of Dead ' Man's Hill on the Verdun front. The , , attack was defeated by the French, I the war office report this afternoon i nays. The Germans, tho announcement announce-ment states, suffered "enormous loss -I Two simultaneous counter attacks by the Germans on a trench captured yesterday by the French north of Cumieres were repulsed. ; At hill 304 and in the Vaux region, rgSk there was incessant bombardments. S I A French aerial squadron bombard- - ed a supply and -munitions station south of Thiaucourt and a camp near 9 1 Splncourt, "J3 Germans Suffer Enormous Losses. -J I The text follows: Jg I "After a violent bombardment yes- - lorday, the enemy, at tho end of the M i day, delivered a powerful attack In ' dense formation upon the trenches Wii captured by us north of Dead Man's "Kl Hill. Our curtain of fire, together JOt) with tho fire of the machine guns, WjU caused enormous loss to the cnemy Ef and all tho assaults of tho Germans JRh( were broken. w "Thoro has been a violent and con- Wti tinued bombardment of hill No. 304 &fF d also In tno T&on of Vau- Tne Wxk night passed quietly in the Woevro. WL "During the night of April 29-30 Wk French aeroplane squadrons threw Wwf down numerous projectlls on the rail- M road station at Sebastopol, south of 8i,t Thlacourt; on certain bivouacks near 2j Splncourt and on the railway stations jR at Apremont, Grand Pre, Challego -$? range and Vouziere. Z-W& "During these operations it was &m noticed that numerous tires broke out 3Ki an a number of explosions were af- "m footed on the railroads." |
