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Show I Violent German Bombardment Is Halted; I , French Artillery Inflicts Heavy Losses I CROWN PRINCE MEETS DEFEAT Germans Open Violent Infantry In-fantry Action on Both Sides of Meuse. FRENCH FOIL ADVANCE Liquid Fire Used Against Pe-: Pe-: tain's Men North of Wood Complete Failure. 1 The Germans have resumed the of- 1 Tensive before' Verdun, putting 'their infantry in, section on both banks of ' the Mouse but failing to gain addi- i Uonal ground. Tho principal attempt to advance was made cast of the Meuse, following an intense bombard ment. Paris reports that the French l artillery foiled the attempt and caused 1 tho Germans heavy losses. The scene of this fighting was between tho river and Tort Vaux. To the west, just "beyond the Meuse, ' the Germans put liquid fire into play in attacking the French lines north !! of the Caurettes wood, hut the as- ! sault is declared to havo been bar- ren of advantage to the crown prince's forces j Aviators Busy In Balkans. I In tho Balkans, a French aeroplane i made a 400-mlle flight from the allied I lines to Sofia and return, dropping four large calibre bombs on a Zeppelin shed in the Bulgarian capital. Other points behind tho lines also wore bombarded bom-barded by French airmen, the Dolran region being given especial attention, atten-tion, Berlin Reports French Failure. Berlin reports a futile attack by the French in the Dead Man's Hill ! region northwest of Verdun. Tho Par- J 1b statement declares the Germans at- tacked here and succeeded in gain ing a footing in the French first line hut were afterward ejected. . An attack north of Ypres is admit- ted by Berlin to havo resulted in the recovery by tho British of about a .', third of the GOO yards of trenches j taken by tho Germans recently. i I Paris, April 21, 12:30 p. m. An in- ( tense bombardment of the French front beforo Vordun, between tho Meuso and Fort Vaux, was followed' - last night by an attempt on the part! ! of the German troops to advance. The ' -war ofllco announcement of this after- 3 noon says tho advance was halted by I .' the artillery flro of the French, J '( which Inflicted heavy losses on the. j Gormans. The statement afso says a German I I attack north of Caurettes wood In I A which liquid firo was used, was re-, J pulsed. j PjJjP Tho text of the statement follows: I "In Belgium our artillery energetl- cally cannonaded the sector east of -J the Ypres-Pilkelm road during an ac- tion at this point by British troops. j "West of the Meuse, the enemy dur- J ing the night attacked our positions on the slopes north of Dead Man's ( hill. The Germans, who had succeed- j ed in getting a foothold in our first X line, were ejected soon after by a j counter-attack which won back for us ; all the terrain previously conquered j by us. Another, attack, in which I liquid firo was used, was delivered I against our trenches north of the Cau- rettes wood. It was completely re pulsed. Germans Bring Up Large Forces. ''East of the Mouse, at tho close of l the day yesterday, following an in- r tense ibombnxdmont of our linos from t the Meuse as far as Fort Vaux, the Germans brought up largo bodies of troops lo their trenches on tho front between tho pond and Fort Vaux hi preparation for an attack. Artillery bombardments immediately launched prevented an advance and caused serious seri-ous losses to tho enemy. "In Lo Pretre wood there was some fighting between patrols. 'On the rest of tho front the night was calm." & English Capture Trenches. t-v Berlin April 22, via London, 4.10 p. F m -The text of the official statement issued today at the German army ,lSSSfSiJ: On the Lang marck-Ypres high road the English early in tho morning, attacked tho trenches which our patrols captured Anril 10 Tho enemy re-occupied about one-third of tho positions, v "On both sides of La Bassee canal wo exploded a lew mines with good 11 rCEnemy flro upon the towns of Lens ami ESS resulted in further victims ir-i anions tho civil population. At Rove l one chili was killed and two women mi and a child injured. Mi 'In the Argonno, we destroyed WL French outpost positions on tho hill if n U Mile Morto by mine oxplo- I V Sons TWo occupied an extensive crater M ! before our front. m French Attack Breaks Down, ft' "West of tho Mouse tho French re- M: Pealed their efforts in tho region of m ) nI Ahn'a hill. They twice bom- I SedMS combined artillery and 1 Slno sun firo both banks of5 tho I' river Tho third attack broke down ( ) with heavy losses beforo our posl- WS- UDTriprce hand grenade engagements W& for a trench section in the nelghbor- JSr hood of Caurettes woods resulted in -WK ,b Covering this section toward evon- ''6 lint: During the night tho French V ' again succeeded in obtaining a fool- I hold in this wood. eMm bruch (stono quarry) south of Haudre-raont Haudre-raont and south of Fort Douaumont, there was lively artillery activity, together to-gether with grenade and bomb fighting. fight-ing. Tho artillery continues without interruption day and night its customary cus-tomary loval violence on the entire battle front in the Meuse district Prisoners Are Taken. "Noilhwest of Fresnes-En-Woevre, prisoners were taken belonging to the 154th French division. This proves that in tho region between this town and Avocourt since February 21, thlr- tj'-olght divisions were employed, of ! which four divisions, after a long rest, ; were reinforced by fresh drafts taken ! chiefly from tho recruits of the class of 1916 who wcro brought into tho battle and beaten. Eastern theater: Yesterday, southeast south-east of Garbunovka, there were Russian Rus-sian attacks with sanguinary losses in front of our entanglements." Russians on Way to Verdun. Lyon, France, April 22, 12:40 p. nu The Russian troops which arrived at Marseilles, Thursday, for service with the French on the western front, passed pass-ed through here today on their way northward. They were given an enthusiastic en-thusiastic welcome all along their route. Britfsh Offer to Spain. Berlin, April 22, Wireless to Say-1 Say-1 ville. Acordlng to reports from Geneva, Ge-neva, says the Overseas News Agency, Great Britain has offered to Spain possession of Tangier if Spain will seize tho German ships in Spanish ports and will consent to the closing of the straits of Gibraltar to all neutral neu-tral ships except those flying the Spanish Hag. British Heavy Losers. Coustautinoplo, April 22, via London, 5:21 p. m. The British loss on tho right bank of tho Tigris, on April 17, was more than 4,000 killed and wounded, wound-ed, according to an official statement signed by tha war officials today. The battle occurred at Bestissa says tbe statement and ended with tho defeat de-feat of the British. |